Talk:Gregory Benford

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Contents 1 Bibliography 2 Timescape author(s) 3 Book list on talk page? 4 Question on attribution of Corollary on Clarke's Third Law 5 Hard SF 6 Plagiarism 7 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Bibliography

From: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Gregory_Benford

Series

   * Changeling
         o Find the Changeling (1980) with Gordon Eklund 

   * Ocean
         o In the Ocean of Night (1977)
         o Across the Sea of Suns (1984)
         o Great Sky River (1987)
         o Tides of Light (1989)
         o Furious Gulf (1994)
         o Sailing Bright Eternity (1995) 

   * Second Foundation Trilogy
         o Foundation's Fear (1997) 

Novels

   * Deeper Than the Darkness [vt The Stars in Shroud (1978)](1970)
   * Jupiter Project (1975)
   * If the Stars Are Gods (1977) with Gordon Eklund
   * The Stars in Shroud (1978)
         o Magazine/Anthology Appearances:
         o The Stars in Shroud (Part 1 of 3) (1978)
         o The Stars in Shroud (Part 2 of 3) (1978)
         o The Stars in Shroud (Part 3 of 3) (1978) 
   * Timescape (1980)
   * Shiva Descending (1980) with William Rotsler
   * Against Infinity (1983)
         o Magazine/Anthology Appearances:
         o Against Infinity (Part 1 of 2) (1983)
         o Against Infinity (Part 2 of 2) (1983) 
   * Time's Rub (1984)
   * Artifact (1985)
   * Heart of the Comet (1986) with David Brin
   * Iceborn (1989) with Paul A. Carter
   * Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) with Arthur C. Clarke
   * Amazing Stories No 7 (1992) with J. R. Dunn and James Alan Gardner and Kim Mohan
   * Chiller (1993)
   * A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel (1995) with Mark O. Martin
   * Cosm (1998)
   * The Martian Race (1999)
   * Eater (2000)
   * Beyond Infinity (2004)
   * What Might Have Been (2004)
   * Merlin (2004)
   * The Sunborn (2005) 

Collections

   * In Alien Flesh (1986)
   * Matter's End (1994)
   * Worlds Vast and Various (2000) 

Anthology Series

   * What Might Have Been
         o 1 Alternate Empires (1989) with Martin H. Greenberg
         o 2 Alternate Heroes (1989) with Martin H. Greenberg
         o 3 Alternate Wars (1991) with Martin H. Greenberg
         o 4 Alternate Americas (1992) with Martin H. Greenberg 

   * The New Hugo Winners
         o 4 The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV (1997) 

   * Nebula Awards
         o 34 Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000) 

Anthologies

   * Hitler Victorious (1986) with Martin H. Greenberg
   * Nuclear War (1988) with Martin H. Greenberg
   * Far Futures (1995)
   * Skylife: Visions of Our Homes in Space (2000) with George Zebrowski
   * Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000) with George Zebrowski
   * Microcosms (2004) 

Nonfiction

   * Deep Time (1999)

[edit] Timescape author(s)

Amazon and http://www.sffworld.com/book/229.html both only give GB as the author, and that's all I remember from when I read the book. The only Google hits for HB are the present Wik articcle and a Russian page giving HB as daughter-in-law (?) and co-author. Is there any serious support for claiming she co-authored the book?

I have now removed the sil, since no one responded, and the originator used no nmae for contacting her/him. Kdammers 10:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Book list on talk page?

Is there a reasion the book list on on the talk page and not the main page, or even linked from the main page to another page like List of books by Gregory Benford? Zvar 00:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

maybe because it's lifted with-out change from another site? I don't know if there is some policy or legal problem here. If not, then I think it should go onto the main page or a a link to the source at least be given if it isn't already. Kdammers 01:40, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on attribution of Corollary on Clarke's Third Law

The reference seems to be Greg's use in Foundation's Fear in 1997. I've always heard this attributed to Dr. Barry Gehm. There is an attibution in a signature from a newsgroup posting in 1994. Do we have a definitive reference for origination of this corollary? --WikiTraveller 02:10, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Further investigation indicates it was published in Analog in 1991 and attributed to Dr. Gehm. --WikiTraveller 02:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hard SF

Why the deletion? Hard SF exists as an article, and GB certainly is a significant HSF writer. Kdammers 00:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC).

Perhpas it should me mentioned, though God knows I'm not going to do it, that he is a close friend of Stephen Hawking. Here's some proof: http://www.reason.com/news/show/28378.html

[edit] Plagiarism

Shouldn't Benford's plagiarism of Hoyle's The Black Cloud in Eater be mentioned? laddiebuck 22:29, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Only if you have documented proof of the claim and actuality of plagiarism. And similarity of ideas is not plagiarism. Shsilver 01:26, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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