The Galactic Center Companion

The Galactic Center Companion

by Gregory Benford
The Galactic Center Companion

The Galactic Center Companion

by Gregory Benford

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Overview

Death came in on sixteen legs.

So begins a novella set in the Galactic Center series, “A Hunger for the Infinite.” Now this novella and much other writing about the science and fiction in the series, appears in one volume. Unique in literature, the series comes from the author’s own scientific research. The series took a quarter century to complete, and Benford traces his own research into the strange structures there, first discovered in the 1980s. Critics have described the six novels as “magnificent” by “the most rigorous of hard SF writers.” The series has been called “one of the greatest sf series ever written,” “a major achievement in realizing the potential of hard SF not only as speculation, but as literature,” with “a bardic heft worthy of Poul Anderson.” “No one has surpassed this ground-breaking achievement in mapping the unmappable depths of space, time, and consciousness.”

For the first time, all the depth surrounding the series is collected in one volume.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940045774178
Publisher: Gregory Benford
Publication date: 03/17/2014
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Gregory Benford is the author of more than 20 novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the 1995 Lord Foundation Award for achievement in the sciences, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.

Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he conducts research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. He has published well over 100 papers in the fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.

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