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Benford's latest book, Furious Gulf, (Bantam Spectra) is about an expedition exploring the black hole at the center of the galaxy. It's the fifth in his "Galactic Center" series, which began in 1976 with In the Ocean of the Night.
- ↑ "1977 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
- ↑ "1978 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
- ↑ Cramer, John G. (27 December 1987). "If Homer Were to Write Science Fiction: Great Sky River by Gregory Benford". Los Angeles Times. p. B11.
The novel is set several thousand years in the future of Benford's previous novels, In the Ocean of Night and Across the Sea of Suns, two books of a projected trilogy.
- ↑ "1988 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
- ↑ White, Ted (26 February 1989). "Of Machines And Men". The Washington Post. p. BW09.
Gregory Benford's Tides of Light is a sequel to his Great Sky River, and part of a loosely-linked series that includes In the Ocean of Night and Across the Sea of Suns.
- ↑ "1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
- ↑ "Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Center, book 6) by Gregory Benford". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
The finale to the Galactic Centre sequence, in which three generations of men who hold the key to human survival become the target of 'the Mechs'.
- ↑ Witcover, Paul (20 March 2000). "Mean, stupid, ugly, and the terror of all other species". Sci Fi Weekly.
He is perhaps best known for his Galactic Center novels, which together constitute one of the most ambitious and enthralling sagas in all of science fiction: The epic tale of a star-spanning civilization of intelligent machines methodically working to exterminate a species of pestiferous vermin that calls itself humanity.
- ↑ Schneider, Michael (20 August 2001). "De Bont plans FX sci-fi mini". Variety.
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