Best Selling Books by Gregory Benford

Isaac Asimov''s Foundation series has long held a pre-eminent place in the science fiction canon. Yet Asimov himself suggested that there were areas that needed further exploration. In FOUNDATION''S FEAR, Gregory Benford, one of the foremost writers of hard science fiction, takes up the challenge. Hari Seldon, close to perfecting his theory of Psychohistory, is now a reluctant candidate for the position of First Minister. But there is considerable, and dangerous, opposition to him and he and his wife, Dora, are forced to flee Trantor. But Hari''s sometimes harrowing experiences whet his political edge and prepare him for the all-important confrontation with his enemy.... FOUNDATIONS'' FEAR is an important and compelling work, in which Benford''s magnificent storytelling, grand vision and hard science fiction combine to take Asimov''s Foundation into new and fascinating territory.

In 1962, a young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his investigations lead him to the shattering truth that scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past to try and avert disaster.

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After an accident in a brilliant young physicist''s most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely different universe, a newborn cosmos whose existence will rock this world and test one woman to the limit: the physicist who has ignited this thrilling adventure. Only the author of the landmark novel Timescape could so plausibly take the reader behind the scenes of major scientific research, so boldly speculate about the consequences of paradigm-shifting discovery, and so vividly capture the intense human drama as the forces of academia, government, theology, and the mass media battle for control of a mysterious new reality. COSM is Gregory Benford at his provocative best, exploring ideas at the frontier of mankind''s understanding, and posing profound questions about Creation, human destiny, and the riddle of godhood.

The third novel in the Nebula Award–winning author''s classic series: "A challenging, pacesetting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed" ( Los Angeles Times ). Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, people like Killeen of Family Bishop and his child Toby are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity—neither organic nor cybernetic nor living matter—reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen. But can this fallen descendant of starfarers understand this alien being in time . . . and seize the only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?

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From a Nebula award-winning author, a classic hard sci-fi fantasy of a maverick astronaut who goes against NASA''S command when he discovers alien artifacts. 2034. An indistinguishable sound is heard from the depths of space and one member of the search and survey team, Nigel, believes he knows its origins. Fifteen years earlier, he was the astronaut sent to implode a firey comet as it hurtled toward the Asian subcontinent. Once inside the fissure he made an unlikely discovery: an abandoned alien ship. Against his better judgment, Nigel carried out his mission, destroying the vessel—but not before clandestinely removing alien data and technology from on board. Now, as the team sets forth on a new adventure of discovery, Nigel''s past will collide with the present, introducing him to wonders beyond human comprehension.

The Nebula Award–winning author''s classic hard SF thriller of a race to Mars—and the "strange and beautiful" things encountered on the Red Planet ( Publishers Weekly ). In the early twenty-first century, a $30 billion dollar prize will be awarded to the private organization that successfully lands a spaceship on Mars. Eccentric billionaire John Axelrod believes he can accomplish the impossible challenge. But following closely behind his Consortium is a joint venture mounted by China and Europe. The race to the Red Planet is on . . . but getting there is just the beginning.

The second volume in the classic hard sci-fi series by the renowned physicist and Nebula Award–winning author: "So good it hurts" ( Washington Post Book World ). 2076. Technology has propelled the world into a new age of enlightenment. Nigel has left Earth to explore space and search for alien life. But while on this captivating mission, humanity''s birthplace has fallen prey to attack and its seas are seeded with alien lifeforms. Now, Nigel is left to search for the only savior he knows—the one who saved him once before—the alien machine called the "Snark." Having left the solar system and turned traitor to its alien masters, Nigel is unsure of the Snark''s new allegiance. Is the Snark a friend? Or will it also turn on Nigel . . . proving to be a deadly foe?

A scientist facing personal tragedy discovers a sentient black hole targeting humanity in this hard sci-fi thriller from "a superb storyteller" ( Houston Post). Dr. Benjamin Knowlton''s private world is crumbling around him. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist learns that his beloved wife and partner, Channing—an ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying of cancer. Meanwhile, something looms alarmingly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons'' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered "Eater," an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed . . . and feared. "A celestial horror tale, a cosmological adventure, a literate end-of-the-world epic, and a story bursting with old-fashioned ''sense of wonder.''" — Orlando Sentinel "Benford spins poetry from textbook phenomena . . . [His] novel proves that scientific wisdom involves the heart and soul as well as the mind." — The Washington Post Book World "The scientific equivalent of a taut police procedural . . . Benford''s deft, suspenseful weaving of the struggle between Eater and humanity blends two threads with maximal impact." — Newark Star Ledger "Even in the face of huge events and special effects sequences, Benford manages to keep the characters and the human-scale issues important . . . It''s just this kind of juggling that characterizes the best of Benford''s work . . . Eater is Benford''s most Benfordesque book in quite a while." — Locus

A gripping, masterfully written adventure set against the violent beauty of a planet in the throes of cataclymic transformation, "Against Infinity" is Gregory Benford''s timeless portrait of a young man''s comming of age. On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt.Their prey is the "Aleph"--an unknowable alien artifact that roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia. Indescribable, infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men''s dreams and destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable planet. Now in a modern world ancient struggle is joined, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks enlightenment, and a society seeks the power to rule the universe. On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a hunt for the Aleph--an alien artifact that ruled Ganymede for countless millenia, Infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men''s dreams and destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into an habitable planet. Now an ancient struggle is joined, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks enlightenment, and a society seeks the power to rule the universe.

The first collaboration between the Nebula Award-winning authors of Timescape and Startide Rising, Heart of the Comet is a breathtaking novel about a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to a distant, unknowable future. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The final volume in the Nebula Award–winning author''s classic hard SF series—"as at the end of any great symphony, one can only stand and applaud" ( Asimov''s Science Fiction ). Humanity''s final chapter has begun, and three men hold the key to survival. As the fierce, artificially intelligent mechs pursue their savage and unstoppable destruction of the human race, it soon becomes apparent that three men—three generations in a family of voyagers—are their targets. Toby Bishop, his father Kileen, and his long-dead grandfather each carry a piece of the lethal secret that can destroy their relentless pursuers. To make matters worse, they have no idea they possess the only weapon that can save humanity. Sailing Bright Eternity concludes the genre-defining Galactic Center series by by the eminent physicist and award-winning author Gregory Benford. This edition contains a teaser chapter from Benford''s novel The Sunborn.

The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream--a universe where beings are collected like songs.

What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different.

“A fascinating plunge into a new world. I loved the idea of the SETI Library on the moon. Chasing wormholes is also a wild ride!” —Jack McDevitt, bestselling author of Octavia Gone Shadows of Eternity is legendary author Gregory Benford’s return to interstellar science fiction as a discovery within the SETI library on the moon turns out to be deadly. Shadows of Eternity is a novel set two centuries from now. Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds—who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination—and in her quest for understanding nearly gets killed doing it. Gregory Benford is one of science fiction’s iconic writers, having been nominated for four Hugo Awards and twelve Nebula Awards. Shadows of Eternity marks Gregory Benford’s return to the sweeping galactic science fiction that readers have been waiting for.