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  Timescape

  by Gregory Benford

  Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner.
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  Galactic Center: Book 1

  In the Ocean of Night

  by Gregory Benford

  2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the... (more)
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  Galactic Center: Book 2

  Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)

  by Gregory Benford

  Lancer, a spaceship built to specifications found in the computers of an alien derelict, journeys to the star, Ra, from which the Earth has received mysterious radio transmissions in English
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  Galactic Center: Book 3

  Great Sky River (Galactic Center)

  by Gregory Benford

  The third novel in the award-winning author's classic Galactic Center series is available once again. "A challenging, pacesetting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed."--"Los Angeles Times."
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  Galactic Center: Book 4

  Tides of Light

  by Gregory Benford, Nasho V. Jorgaqi

  Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. Reprint from Spectra.
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  Galactic Center: Book 6

  Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Center)

  by Gregory Benford

  The Nebula Award-winning author concludes his Galactic Center series with the final battle of the violent aliens known as the mechs to destroy the human race. By the author of Furious Gulf.
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  Galactic Center: Book 5

  Furious Gulf (Galactic Center)

  by Gregory Benford

  The passengers on the spaceship Argo, pursued by hostile ""mechs,"" must face their doubts about their captain's obsession with finding the galaxy's True Center, an obsession that even troubles the captain's son. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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  The Martian Race

  by Gregory Benford

  Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so what else could he possibly say? That notwithstanding, Zubrin's right--he couldn't have picked a better book to show his face in. By popular assent, Martian Race deserves top honors among the... (more)