Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford , born on January 30th, 1941 in Mobile in the Alabama, is a writer of Science-fiction, more particularly of Hard science fiction, and a physicist specialist in the Plasma, professor of physics at the University of Irvine in California.

Biography

Wire of an officer of career, Gregory Benford resides during its childhood in occupied Japan and Germany of after war and carries out a wandering life following his/her father. Of return to the country and impassioned science fiction, it Co-publishes, in particular with his twin brother Jim, Fanzine of science fiction entitled Void .

In 1963, it obtains a Bachelor off Science in physics at the university of Oklahoma, then a Master off Science at the University of California de San Diego in 1965 and one doctorate at the same place in 1967. This year there, he marries Joan Abbe with which he will have two children.

He makes his literary beginnings in June 1965 off by publishing the news Stand-in in the review The Magasine Fantasy and Science-Fiction . He collaborates then regularly in this review, as with Amazing Stories where he holds a scientific heading, initially with David BooK of 1966 to 1972, then only until 1976. He publishes regularly in reviews of popularization such as Vertex , Locus and The Magasine off Fantasy and Science-Fiction where he replaces Isaac Asimov.

In 1971, just after the publication of its first novel Deeper than the Darkness , it is named professor attending the university of Irvine in California, then full professor of physics in 1979. He also taught in the famous Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of Livermore.

He contributes in the years 1980 to the birth of a new cosmological theory, that of the cosmic Inflation. Its work led it to write a score of novels and news which mixes Hard science and Psychologie. Because of its scientific work, it publishes relatively little and, moreover, some of its works were not translated yet.

Works

; Cycle the Galactic Center

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