
Author · born 1941
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 1941) is a science fiction author and astrophysicist. Born in Mobile.
Our catalogue lists 4 books by Gregory Benford, mostly alternate history, historical fantasy and shifter fiction. They span 1980 to 2017. The most-read is Hitler Victorious (1986).
Books by Gregory Benford

Hitler Victorious
Gregory Benford, Martin H. Greenberg

The Berlin Project
Gregory Benford

Alternate Empires
Gregory Benford, Martin H. Greenberg

Find the Changeling
Gregory Benford, Gordon Eklund
Awards
- ✦Hugo Awards 1997 — Best Novella, Immersion (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1978 — Best Novella, A Snark in the Night (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Short Story, Doing Lennon (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1970 — Best Short Story, Deeper Than the Darkness (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 2009 — Best Novella, Dark Heaven (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1996 — Best Novella, Soon Comes Night (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1993 — Best Novelette, Matter's End (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1989 — Best Novel, Great Sky River (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1987 — Best Novella, Newton Sleep (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1984 — Best Novel, Against Infinity (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1982 — Best Novella, Swarmer, Skimmer (nominee)
- 🏆Nebula Awards 1981 — Best Novel, Timescape (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1978 — Best Novel, In the Ocean of Night (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1976 — Best Short Story, Doing Lennon (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1976 — Best Short Story, White Creatures (nominee)
- 🏆Nebula Awards 1975 — Best Novelette, If the Stars Are Gods (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1970 — Best Novelette, Deeper Than the Darkness (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Science Fiction Novel, The Berlin Project (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Collection, The Best of Gregory Benford (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Shipstar (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Bowl of Heaven (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2007 — Best Novelette, Bow Shock (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2005 — Best Anthology, Microcosms (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2004 — Best Novelette, The Hydrogen Wall (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2003 — Best Novelette, The Clear Blue Seas of Luna (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2002 — Best Short Story, Anomalies (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Anthology, Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Anthology, Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Collection, Worlds Vast and Various (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Eater (nominee)
Biography
Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine. Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. Greg is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the Lord Foundation Prize, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. Source: Secular Policy Institute