His breakthrough book was Timescape (1980), which won both the Campbell Memorial and Nebula Awards. Benford began his Galactic Center series with In the Ocean of Night (1977), which continued with Across the Sea of Suns (1984), Great Sky River (1987), Tides of Light (1989), Furious Gulf (1994), and Sailing Bright Eternity (1995). Benford and William Rotsler wrote Shiva Descending that same year. He co-wrote Find the Changeling with Gordon Eklund (1980). That was followed by YA Jupiter Project (1975). Some of his short work has been gathered in collections In Alien Flesh (1986), Matter’s End (1995), Worlds Vast and Various (2000), and Anomalies (2012).įirst novel Deeper Than the Darkness (1970, revised as The Stars in Shroud, 1978) was a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee in its original novelette form. Other notable stories include Hugo and Nebula Award finalist ‘‘Doing Lennon’’ (1975) Nebula Award nominees ‘‘White Creatures’’ (1975), ‘‘Swarmer, Skimmer’’ (1981), ‘‘Newton Sleep’’ (1986), ‘‘Matter’s End’’ (1991), ‘‘Soon Comes Night’’ (1994), and ‘‘Dark Heaven’’ (2007) and Hugo finalists ‘‘A Snark in the Night’’ (1977) and ‘‘Immersion’’ (1996). ‘‘If the Stars Are Gods’’, written with Gordon Eklund, won the Nebula Award in 1975. He published fanzine Void with co-editors including Jim, Terry Carr, and Ted White.īenford’s first published story, ‘‘Stand In’’, appeared in F&SF in 1965. Meanwhile he was active as a SF writer and fan, helping, with Jim, to organize the first German SF convention while living in Europe in 1956. He worked at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory from 1967-71, then joined UC Irvine, where he was the youngest tenured professor in the California system.
He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BS in physics in 1963, and earned his MS in 1965 and PhD in 1967 from UC San Diego. Their father was in the army, and they moved frequently. Urn:oclc:828281391 Scandate 20111007133348 Scanner Albert Benford was born Januin Mobile AL, along with his identical twin James.
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