Gregory Benford

In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange...

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling interstellar odyssey in the not-too-distant future. "If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas—both physical and psychological—then...

Onboard an ancient starship, Killeen and the Bishop tribe escape the mech-ruled world of Snowglade....

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in this bold collaboration about our near human future in space....

The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of Heaven Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an...

Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive....

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...

It is 2019. NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth....

When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars....

It is 2076: Lancer, Earth’s first starship, is on a mission to find interstellar civilizations....

New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team, has...

The award-winning author of Timescape and Eater returns with a gripping new novel set in the same dynamic future as his wildly popular The Martian Race. Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the...

Millennia of conflict between humans and mechs have driven the human race to near-extinction....

Few writers have successful blended hard science and speculation with fully realized characters as Gregory Benford has in his critically acclaimed novels....