Best Selling Books by Gregory Benford

Craftsman and amateur astronomer Geoffrey Carlisle from Ely discovers that the moon is fractionally ahead of its usual elliptical orbit. He becomes instantaneously well-known for his unique observation. Using Carlisle''s findings, astronomy experts discover that each star circling the moon has been slightly warped. Yet after some time, as Professor Wright from Cambridge University had predicted, the warped stars return to their rightful places, suggesting that the world is an information-ordered one, like an analogue program acting out. What then, are the actual repercussions of a computational error in reality?

Die Erde am Abgrund Als Wissenschaftler im selben Abschnitt des Weltraums kurz hintereinander zwei Gammastrahlen-Blitze beobachten, sind sie sicher, dass sie von einem Schwarzen Loch von der Masse unseres Mondes verursacht werden, das einen Stern nach dem anderen verschlingt. Berechnungen zufolge wird dieser unersättliche "Eater" auch der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Und das Befremdliche an diesem Objekt ist, dass irgendjemand - oder irgendetwas - es zu steuern scheint. Ist es eine Waffe? Oder ein außerirdisches Raumschiff? Spekulationen, die Wissenschaftler und Militärs ebenso auf den Plan rufen wie Weltuntergangspropheten ...

Physicist and writer Gregory Benford draws from his own research to craft this third collection of science fiction stories, available for the first time in book form.

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling intersteller odyssey in the not-too-distant future. “If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas—both physical and psychological—then you definitely want to read this book.” —Analog on the New York Times bestseller Bowl of Heaven A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best. Don''t miss Gregory Benford''s mindbending short story The Final Now, a Tor.com Original. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission - to throw an entire world into eternal chaos and madness. The Earth Consortium could send only an embittered killer and an untrained anthropologist to hunt down the Changeling. Yet, dangerous though it was, the Changeling was not the only peril the Earthmen faced on Alvea, or the worst - for the Alveans feared and hated Earth. Even a hint of the hunter''s identities would leave them dead and dismembered within minutes

Ein Universum in der Nussschale Im Supercollider des Brookhaven National Laboratory, dem mächtigsten Zyklotron der Welt, schießt man schwere Atomkerne aufeinander, um so die Bedingungen bei der Entstehung unseres Universums zu beobachten. Nach einem katastrophalen Zwischenfall wird ein kugelförmiges, opakes Gebilde gefunden, das sich als unzerstörbar erweist. Mit Faszination und zunehmendem Entsetzen stellen die Wissenschaftler fest, dass es sich um einen Miniaturkosmos handelt, der dem Universum aufs Haar gleicht, in dem die Zeit allerdings sehr viel schneller verrinnt. Was wird passieren, wenn die Zeit abgelaufen ist?

Arthur C.Clarke''s early novel Against the Fall of the Night, set far in the future, and a sequel by Gregory Benford. Alvin, the only child for many centuries born in what is believed to be the only city left on Earth, leads a renaissance. Man is reclaiming the Earth, but evil has also returned.

Sentinels: A collection of stories and essays by some of Clarke''s many colleagues and friends who were influenced by his writings and thoughts about human possibilities, and who continue as his sentinels by the doors to the future that he opened... Stories and essays by: Isaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, Pat Cadigan, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Robert A. Heinlein, A.A. Jackson IV, Christopher McKitterick, Charles Pellegrino, Frederik Pohl, Pamela Sargent, Joan Slonczewski, Allen Steele, Howard Waldrop, Jack Williamson, George Zebrowski.

The Future Is Ourselves The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.

"Three visions of tyranny... Under the Wheel. Benford: Utopias can be magic places for those who want to live there. For the unwilling they can be hell on Earth... or off it... Ford: In the grim years following the U.S./Soviet cease-fire, the technology of mind control reaches heights never dreamed of in the 20th century... Springer: When best friends turn against each other, the parting is always cruel. when one is a tyrant and the other only a slave, it can be deadly..."--Pg. [4] of cover.

1998: La tierra es un caos al borde de un desastre ecológico. Pero en Inglaterra, un científico que trabaja con taquiones está intentando contactar con el pasado para advertirles sobre la miseria y la muerte que sus experimentos y acciones han causado en un planeta asolado. 1962: J. F. K. es aún presidente, reina el rock, y la guerra de Vietnam no es noticia. Un joven ayudante de investigación en una universidad californiana, Gordon Bernstein, descubre extraños patrones de interferencia en un experimento de laboratorio. A riesgo de arruinar su reputación, Bernstein comienza a desvelar la increíble verdad, una verdad que cambia su vida y altera la historia... la verdad que se esconde detrás del tiempo.

A collection of stories that speculates about what would have happened if Hitler had won the Second World War