Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford es uno de los autores de ciencia ficción más importantes de nuestro tiempo, así como un importante científico. Como escritor, ha sido galardonado con los premios más importantes del genero, como el Nebula, el Ditmar y el John W. Campbell por Cronopaisaje.1998: La tierra es un caos al borde de un desastre ecologico. Pero en Inglaterra, un cientifico que trabaja con taquiones esta 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 aun presidente, reina el rock, y la guerra de Vietnam no es noticia. Un joven ayudante de investigacion en una universidad californiana, Gordon Bernstein, descubre extraños patrones de interferencia en un experimento de laboratorio. A riesgo de arruinar su reputacion, Bernstein comienza a desvelar la increible verdad, una verdad que cambia su vida y altera la historia... la verdad que se esconde detras del tiempo.

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 aun presidente, reina el rock, y la guerra de Vietnam no es noticia. Un joven ayudante de investigacion en una universidad californiana, Gordon Bernstein, descubre extraños patrones de interferencia en un experimento de laboratorio. A riesgo de arruinar su reputacion, Bernstein comienza a desvelar la increible verdad, una verdad que cambia su vida y altera la historia... la verdad que se esconde detras del tiempo.

Gregory Benford es uno de los autores de ciencia ficción más importantes de nuestro tiempo, así como un importante científico. Como escritor, ha sido galardonado con los premios más importantes del genero, como el Nebula, el Ditmar y el John W. Campbell por Cronopaisaje. 1998: La tierra es un caos al borde de un desastre ecologico. Pero en Inglaterra, un cientifico que trabaja con taquiones esta 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 aun presidente, reina el rock, y la guerra de Vietnam no es noticia. Un joven ayudante de investigacion en una universidad californiana, Gordon Bernstein, descubre extraños patrones de interferencia en un experimento de laboratorio. A riesgo de arruinar su reputacion, Bernstein comienza a desvelar la increible verdad, una verdad que cambia su vida y altera la historia... la verdad que se esconde detras del tiempo.

Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a young man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth...But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with the slow advance of science. There was talk of closing down the lab. The Earthside pols wanted publicity, adventure and profits - and not necessarily in that order.So Matt had a bright idea. He figured hed steal a spacesuit. Grab a spare shuttlecraft. And discover life on Jupiter...

Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. This last remnant of humanity is led by Killeen, a man elevated to command in desperate times by his luck and daring. He manages to reach a new planet where he encounters vast wonders. But with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered.

The final chapter of humanitys future has begun and one man, Nigel Walmsley, has been alive through it all. An ancient scientist from the distant past, Walmsley had been marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. From here he recalls Earths desperate struggle against the mechs, a violent artificial intelligence dedicated to total annihilation.In a strange space-time continuum called the Esty, the last few survivors from humanitys ravaged planets have taken refuge, readying themselves for a final stand against their ruthless executioners.Three generations of men stand between the mechs and total oblivion for the human race: Toby Bishop, a young warrior-in-training; Killeen Bishop, Tobys father and leader of the last remnants of humanity; and Killeens own father, long believed dead, but now mysteriously returned to his family.As the mechs continue to carve their swathe of destruction through the galaxy, these three men hold the sole hope for the survival of the human race.

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 Carlisles 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?

The first manned mission to Mars has been a resounding success, and excitement grows as more new discoveries are made. However, one phenomenon continues to defy rational explanation - the marsmat - a complex anaerobic life-form found in the planets honeycomb of tunnels. This raises questions about the nature and meaning of life itself which will lead the curious and the driven to Pluto and beyond, to the cold void at the fringes of the solar system.

THE MARS GIRL (Joe Haldeman)Carmen Dula was just like any other girl. Or she used to be, before she spent six months on the spacecraft, John Carter, as part of the first nine families to settle on Mars.Just like any other teenager she was curious about her new homewho wouldnt be?but she did her schoolwork, enjoyed time with her friends, and she started to explore the red planet with the supervision of her guide and friend, Paul Santos; always within the rules set by the colony.Yet the Administrator, Dargo Solingen, seemed to have it out for her. She had no idea why, but she was blamed for every slight; every transgression. Until one day she had enough.At night fall, Carmen donned a biosuit and ventured outside on her ownduring curfew, while her outside privileges had been suspended. She didnt have a set goal. All she knew is that she wanted to explore...What happened next was beyond her most wildest dreams. But how can she prove what she saw that night, when almost everyone assumes she is lying? ===========================================AS BIG AS THE RITZ (Gregory Benford)Clayton Donnor grew up in a hard-working mining asteroid community, so when he went to Earth to study at UCLA, he thought all his dreams had come true. Earth was gaudy, effervescent and, above all, it was fun.Majoring in Comparative Astrophysics, and Minoring in Analytic Economic Morality, Claytons aspirations were large. But he had no idea what would be in store for him when he first met Sylvia Rolland, and she invited him home to meet her father.For Dr. Norman Rollan had created the elusive Brotherworld, a manufactured Hoop world a few kilometres thick, that circled around the Vortex of a black hole twenty kilometres away.Why did Dr. Rollan not allow any Astrophysicists to visit? What were his colony of genetically- perfect clones hiding? Clayton was determined to find out...

An alien craft appears, exploring the universe, approaching Earth. It is not the first. Nigel Walmsley is ordered to destroy it. But he believes it could hold knowledge that could save a world in which pollution and deprivation rule. Belief becomes obsession as he risks all to stop the ship becoming yet another victim of the authorities ignorant dread...

The author of such hard-science masterpieces as Eater, Benford excels at short fiction as well, from a tale of courage in the aftermath of nuclear war ("To the Storming Gulf") to a thoughtful commentary on human and primate interaction in his title novella.

Author of the Nebula Award winning Timescape, Benfords first collection of short stories demonstrates the extraordinary range of his imagination. The stories contained within are a perfect introduction to the work of one of our greatest SF novelists and thinkers.