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Gregory Benford

    30 gennaio 1941

    Gregory Benford è un autore di fantascienza e astrofisico americano. La sua opera esplora frequentemente gli scontri tra vita organica e meccanica su scala galattica. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, Benford approfondisce profonde questioni filosofiche sulla natura dell'intelligenza e del conflitto nell'immensità dello spazio.

    Gregory Benford
    Sailing Bright Eternity
    Glorious
    Tides of Light
    Against Infinity
    Oltre Plutone
    Fondazione. La paura. Il seguito del ciclo di Asimov
    • Shadows of Eternity

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      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.

      Shadows of Eternity2021
      3,0
    • Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven... Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

      Glorious2021
      4,0
    • Glorious: A Science Fiction Novel

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven... Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

      Glorious: A Science Fiction Novel2021
      3,8
    • KontaktaufnahmeDie SunSeeker befindet sich auf der größten Mission in der Geschichte der Menschheit: Erstmals verlässt ein Expeditionsteam unser Sonnensystem, um die Weiten des Universums zu erforschen. Doch auf dem Weg zu den Sternen stößt die Besatzung der SunSeeker auf einen künstlichen Stern, der um ein Vielfaches größer als die Erde ist – und außerdem bewohnt! Das Team macht sich auf, das gigantische Objekt zu erkunden, und stößt dabei auf Geheimnisse, die die Rolle der Menschheit im Universum grundlegend infrage stellen.

      Sternenflüge2014
      3,0
    • Bowl of Heaven

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      In Bowl of Heaven , the first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ( Ringworld ) and Gregory Benford ( Timescape ), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowlshaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

      Bowl of Heaven2013
      3,1
    • Redshift

      Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction

      • 688pagine
      • 25 ore di lettura

      This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works. All-new, original stories by � Ursula K. Le Guin � Gregory Benford � Joe Haldeman � Joyce Carol Oates � and many others On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons The Building by Ursula K. Le Guin Froggies by Laura Whitton What We Did That Summer by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club by Michael Moorcock In Xanadu by Thomas M. Disch Commencement by Joyce Carol Oates Unique Visitors by James Patrick Kelly BIack TuIip by Harry Turtledove Belief by P. D. Cacek In the Un-Black by Stephen Baxter Weeping Walls by Paul Di Filippo Anomalies by Gregory Benford Captive Kong by Kit Reed Feedback by Robert E. Vardeman Between Disappearances by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Resurrection by David Morrell Cleopatra Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand Burros Gone Bad by Peter Schneider Pockets by Rudy Rucker and John Shirley Ave de Paso by Catherine Asaro Road Kill by Joe Haldeman Ting-a-Ling by Jack Dann ‘Bassador by Catherine Wells Ssoroghod’s People by Larry Niven Two Shot by Michael Marshall Smith Billy the Fetus by Al Sarrantonio Viewpoint by Gene Wolfe Fungi by Ardath Mayhar Rhido Wars by Neal Barrett, Jr.

      Redshift2002
      3,4
    • Zum Mars-Jahr 2004 - der eindrucksvollste Roman, der je über den ersten bemannten Flug zu unserem Roten Nachbarplaneten geschrieben wurde! Physik-Professor und Bestsellerautor Gregory Benford schildert das riskante Unternehmen, wie es wohl tatsächlich einmal vonstatten gehen wird - als Wettrennen multinationaler Konzerne.

      Das Rennen zum Mars2002
      3,7
    • Die Geheimnisse des Ringweltuniversums enthüllt! Wie ist es einer so anarchischen und gewalttätigen Rasse wie den Kzinti gelungen, ein interstellares Reich aufzubauen? Was steckt hinter der auf den ersten Blick primitiven, aber doch so erfolgreichen Waffentechnologie der Menschen? Warum sind die Puppenspieler so am Schutz der Menschheit interessiert? Und warum hassen einige der Outsider sie so sehr? Die Antworten darauf wurden oft schon angedeutet. Nun nehmen sich der Physiker Gregory Benford und der Molekularbiologe Mark O. Martin der Fragen in einem spannenden Roman an. Doch seien Sie gewarnt: Das Ringweltuniversum ist dunkler als Sie ahnen. Dieser Roman stellt die stark erweiterte Fassung der gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte aus den Kzin-Kriegen dar. Es ist ein Schlüsselwerk der Ringwelt-Reihe.

      Die Kzin-Kriege: Eine Dunkle Geometrie2002
      3,5