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* OrWasItADream: Theshort story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the ClimateChange-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.
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* OrWasItADream: Theshort story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the ClimateChange-afflicted GlobalWarming-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.
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* OrWasItADream: Theshort story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the GlobalWarming-afflicted ClimateChange-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in Creator/HarlanEllison's anthology ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions''.
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" "Literature/AndTheSeaLikeMirrors" was included in Creator/HarlanEllison's anthology ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions''.
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions''.
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
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!!Benford's novels include:
[[index]]
* ''{{Literature/Timescape}}''
* ''Literature/AgainstInfinity''
* ''Literature/BeyondInfinity'' (no relation)
* ''Literature/TheStarsInShroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Literature/GalacticCenter'' saga, consisting of:
** ''Literature/InTheOceanOfNight''
** ''Literature/AcrossTheSeaOfSuns''
** ''Literature/GreatSkyRiver''
** ''Literature/TidesOfLight''
** ''Literature/FuriousGulf''
** ''Literature/SailingBrightEternity'' [[/index]]%%Don't index Man-Kzin; only the books he wrote
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven [[index]] %%Don't index Man-Kzin; only the books he wrote
* ''Literature/IfTheStarsAreGods'', with Creator/GordonEklund
* ''Literature/FoundationsFear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries''.
* ''Literature/BeyondTheFallOfNight'', a sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Literature/AgainstTheFallOfNight''.
[[/index]]
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[[index]]
* ''{{Literature/Timescape}}''
* ''Literature/AgainstInfinity''
* ''Literature/BeyondInfinity'' (no relation)
* ''Literature/TheStarsInShroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Literature/GalacticCenter'' saga, consisting of:
** ''Literature/InTheOceanOfNight''
** ''Literature/AcrossTheSeaOfSuns''
** ''Literature/GreatSkyRiver''
** ''Literature/TidesOfLight''
** ''Literature/FuriousGulf''
** ''Literature/SailingBrightEternity'' [[/index]]%%Don't index Man-Kzin; only the books he wrote
* Two novels in the ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' series with Creator/LarryNiven [[index]] %%Don't index Man-Kzin; only the books he wrote
* ''Literature/IfTheStarsAreGods'', with Creator/GordonEklund
* ''Literature/FoundationsFear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries''.
* ''Literature/BeyondTheFallOfNight'', a sequel to the late Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Literature/AgainstTheFallOfNight''.
[[/index]]
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Gregory Benford (1941- ) is an American astrophysicist who also happens to be a bestselling award-winning science fiction author.
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Gregory Benford (1941- ) (born January 30, 1941) is an American astrophysicist who also happens to be a bestselling award-winning science fiction author.
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* HumanPopsicle: The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in the future. The slower-than-light starship in ''Across the Sea of Suns'' features "slow cells" in which a person can hibernate for years at a time.
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* HumanPopsicle: HumanPopsicle:
** The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in thefuture. future.
** The slower-than-light starship in ''Across the Sea of Suns'' features "slowcells" slots" in which a person can hibernate for years at a time.
** The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in the
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* {{Ramscoop}}: Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that universe. A big one was also used in ''Across the Sea of Suns'' to take a 1200-person crew to [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Lalande 21185]].
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* {{Ramscoop}}: {{Ramscoop}}:
** Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in thatuniverse. A big one was also used in universe.
** In ''Across the Sea ofSuns'' to take Suns'', an enourmous one takes a 1200-person crew to [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Lalande 21185]].21185]] (which the author identifies by its BD catalog number), and then to Ross 128.
** Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that
** In ''Across the Sea of
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* HumanPopsicle: The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in the future. The slower-than-light starship in ''Across the Sea of Suns'' features "slow cells" in which a person can hibernate for years at a time.
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* {{Ramscoop}}: Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that universe.
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* {{Ramscoop}}: Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that universe. A big one was also used in ''Across the Sea of Suns'' to take a 1200-person crew to [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Lalande 21185]].
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Bigfoot played a prominent, though not central, role in ''In the Ocean of Night''.
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* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
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* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Foundation}}'' ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the lateArthurCClarke's Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late
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* IAmOneOfThoseToo: In "Doing Lennon", a man from the twentieth century hatches a plan to live out his dreams of stardom by having himself frozen and upon being revived in the future, claiming to be Music/JohnLennon. The plan hits a snag when he meets another cryogenically-frozen person claiming to be Music/PaulMcCartney.
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* MechanicalEvolution: The''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating Von Neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
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* MechanicalEvolution: The''Galactic The ''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating Von Neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.themselves.
* MechanicalLifeforms: The ''Galactic Center'' novels include "mechs" which are implied to have evolved from self replicating von neumann machines. Left to their own devices after their biological creators destroyed themselves, errors and changes have occured in their templates over the millenia until their original functions were replaced by sentient self-direction.
* MechanicalLifeforms: The ''Galactic Center'' novels include "mechs" which are implied to have evolved from self replicating von neumann machines. Left to their own devices after their biological creators destroyed themselves, errors and changes have occured in their templates over the millenia until their original functions were replaced by sentient self-direction.
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* StarfishAliens:
** In ''The Sunborn'' humanity discovers strange alien gas-bags on Pluto when some of them start feeding off of the heat given off by their probe. Said alien gas-bags have sapient intelligence. And then a bunch of robotic drones descends on Pluto apparently ''eating'' said aliens. These robotic drones turn out to be the equivalent of microscopic instruments used by what is apparently an intelligent race of electromagnetic waves.
** ''Against Infinity'' has an alien entity called the Aleph, which is even weirder.
** In ''The Sunborn'' humanity discovers strange alien gas-bags on Pluto when some of them start feeding off of the heat given off by their probe. Said alien gas-bags have sapient intelligence. And then a bunch of robotic drones descends on Pluto apparently ''eating'' said aliens. These robotic drones turn out to be the equivalent of microscopic instruments used by what is apparently an intelligent race of electromagnetic waves.
** ''Against Infinity'' has an alien entity called the Aleph, which is even weirder.
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in HarlanEllison's anthology ''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions''.
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* MechanicalEvolution: The''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating von neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in HarlanEllison's anthology ''[[AgainDangerousVisions Again, Dangerous Visions]]''.
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in HarlanEllison's anthology ''[[AgainDangerousVisions Again, Dangerous Visions]]''.
''Literature/AgainDangerousVisions''.
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* StarKilling: In the ''Galactic Center'' series, it is implied that the mechs are the cause behind a number of recent novas.
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* LivingGasbag: ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs of intelligence.
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* CentrifugalGravity: The protagonists of ''Beyond Infinity'' spend a brief time trapped in a Tunnelworld after an encounter with some 4-dimensional aliens. It was a closed loop, so traveling in any direction for a long enough time would return you to your point of origin.
* ExtremeOmnivore: In ''Eater'', the Eater of All Things is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; since it's a sapient black hole, this is natural enough.
* GrandfatherParadox: ''Timescape'' describes a unique, quantum-mechanical approach to Grandfather Paradoxes. If a time-travelling signal were to prevent its own transmission, the signal and everything involved in triggering it would be in an ''indeterminate'' state where it neither does, nor doesn't, occur -- like Schrödinger's Cat before the box is opened.
* HumanPopsicle: The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in the future.
* LivingGasbag: ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs ofintelligence. intelligence.
* MechanicalEvolution: The''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating von neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
* OrWasItADream: Theshort story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the GlobalWarming-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.
* {{Ramscoop}}: Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that universe.
* RingWorldPlanet: The protagonists of ''Beyond Infinity'' spend a brief time trapped in a Tunnelworld after an encounter with some 4-dimensional aliens. It was a closed loop, so traveling in any direction for a long enough time would return you to your point of origin.
* ExtremeOmnivore: In ''Eater'', the Eater of All Things is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; since it's a sapient black hole, this is natural enough.
* GrandfatherParadox: ''Timescape'' describes a unique, quantum-mechanical approach to Grandfather Paradoxes. If a time-travelling signal were to prevent its own transmission, the signal and everything involved in triggering it would be in an ''indeterminate'' state where it neither does, nor doesn't, occur -- like Schrödinger's Cat before the box is opened.
* HumanPopsicle: The short story "Doing Lennon" features a man who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to impersonate John Lennon in the future.
* LivingGasbag: ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs of
* MechanicalEvolution: The''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating von neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
* OrWasItADream: Theshort story "Sleepstory" features a space pilot fighting a war on Ganymede who gets a little compressed downtime with a dream-guiding narrative system, telling a story about an engineer in Los Angeles trying to fix breaches in the dams that keep the GlobalWarming-afflicted seas from flooding the city ...or possibly the other way round.
* {{Ramscoop}}: Gets a brief mention in ''The Stars in Shroud'', although FTL jump-drive technology is the main means of interstellar travel in that universe.
* RingWorldPlanet: The protagonists of ''Beyond Infinity'' spend a brief time trapped in a Tunnelworld after an encounter with some 4-dimensional aliens. It was a closed loop, so traveling in any direction for a long enough time would return you to your point of origin.
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Gregory Benford (1941- ) is an American astrophysicist who also happens to be a bestselling award-winning science fiction author.
His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in HarlanEllison's anthology ''[[AgainDangerousVisions Again, Dangerous Visions]]''.
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Man-Kzin Wars'' series with LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
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!! Tropes in his works:
* LivingGasbag: ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs of intelligence.
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His story "And The Sea Like Mirrors" was included in HarlanEllison's anthology ''[[AgainDangerousVisions Again, Dangerous Visions]]''.
His novels include:
* ''Timescape''
* ''Against Infinity''
* ''Beyond Infinity'' (no relation)
* ''The Stars in Shroud'' (also published as ''Deeper Than the Darkness'')
* The ''Galactic Center'' saga, consisting of:
** ''In the Ocean of Night''
** ''Across the Sea of Suns''
** ''Great Sky River''
** ''Tides of Light''
** ''Furious Gulf''
** ''Sailing Bright Eternity ''
* Two novels in the ''Man-Kzin Wars'' series with LarryNiven
* Some books with co-author Gordon Eklund, including ''If the Stars are Gods''
* ''Foundation's Fear'', an installment in the late Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Foundation}}'' series
* ''Beyond the Fall of Night'', a not-very-well-received sequel to the late ArthurCClarke's ''Against the Fall of Night''
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!! Tropes in his works:
* LivingGasbag: ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs of intelligence.
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