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The Sunborn [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Gregory Benford
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  With their death-defying exploration of Mars and groundbreaking discovery of primitive Martian life, Viktor and Julia have become history's most famous astronauts. Now, after a series of exploits deemed reckless by space agency bureaucrats, they are being pressured to retire and spend their remaining days handling agency publicity. Fortunately, the Mars mission's primary financier, billionaire John Axelrod, has the political muscle to reassign them to an ongoing Pluto mission before it's too lat... more info>>
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Sailing Bright Eternity [Galactic Center Series #6] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Gregory Benford
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 The final chapter of humanity's future has begun and one man has been alive through it all: Nigel Walmsley, an ancient scientist from the distant past marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. From here he recalls the ingenious but desperate struggle against the mechs--a vast and violent artificial intelligence dedicated to the total destruction of the human race--and the enigmatic contact with the Old Ones. The Old Ones are life-forms bigger than the stars and guard the center of the galaxy... more info>>
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Beyond Infinity [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Gregory Benford
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Voyagers cross a living universe in a gripping new novel of the far future by Greg Benford, multiple award-winning author of The Martian Race and Timescape. BEYOND INFINITY takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast wise beyond recognition. But there are mysterious forces afoot among the plan... more info>>
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Foundation's Fear [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Gregory Benford
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Thrust into the First Ministership of the Empire, Hari Seldon must administer twenty-five million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. He's also developing the science that will transform history, and ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat. Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable... more info>> 2004
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Artifact [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Gregory Benford
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A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb. An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age,its purpose, and its origins are unknown. Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war. Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth. It is mystery and madness--an enigma with no equal in recorded history. It is mankind's greatest dis... more info>> 2007
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Time Shards [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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A researcher attempts to listen to the voices of people from a thousand years ago by reading grooves on pottery. Amazingly, this is a hard science fiction story based on actual research, and it may be possible to do this some day! 1979
Words: 3145 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
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Of Space-Time and the River [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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It's been fourteen years since the insect-like Quarthex landed on Earth to open the first diplomatic interstallar relations for cultural studies, but it seems they are only interested in Egypt… 1986
Words: 11268 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
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Dark Sanctuary [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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An asteroid belt miner is suddenly attacked, and now must run for his life. But the pursuing craft is unlike any he's ever encountered before. 1979
Words: 4268 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Matter's End [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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Hard science fiction as only Benford does it. An African-American physicist undertakes a dangerous journey to a politically unstable India to investigate reports that proton decay has been detected in an underfunded laboratory. But the discovery is more than a scientific curiosity, it may herald the end of the entire universe. 1989 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 14601 - Reading Time: 41-58 min.
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In Alien Flesh [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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Reginri was just trying to make some extra cash, doing some off-planet work. He knew the risks, but he didn't know how his life would be changed forever by his contact with the huge aliens on a watery world. 1978
Words: 9415 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
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Eater [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Gregory Benford
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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner--ex-astronaut-turned astronomer--is dying. But something looms alarmingly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Chan... more info>> 2007
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Relativistic Effects [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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The 7000-passenger ship left Earth for Centauri five generations ago on a trip that should have lasted twelve years. They didn't count on the drive freezing up in permanent full-bore thrust and the deceleration components getting fried… 1982
Words: 8598 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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Mozart on Morphine [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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A physicist who has unlocked all the mysteries of subatomic particles is forced to face his own mortality and the questions for which physics provides no answers. This hard science fiction piece provides equal doses of heady intellectualism and emotional impact as it explores both the rigorous field of physics and the human condition. 1989
Words: 4571 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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We Could Do Worse [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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The election of 1956 is at stake and the remorseless thug known as the President has his operatives out in the field making sure there are no surprises. 1988
Words: 1992 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Freezeframe [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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A young couple--both on the fast track of exciting careers--decides to have a child. Problem is, neither wants to give up their career. Enter GeneInc, a company that has a whole line of products (one more hilarious than the next) to put the baby on the fast track too. 1986
Words: 2338 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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If the Stars are Gods [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund
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An astronomer who is an expert on the sun meets with two aliens who believe that stars are god-like entities with individual personalities. [Note: This story was co-authored by Gordon Eklund.] Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 15446 - Reading Time: 44-61 min.
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Doing Lennon [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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A man comes up with a scheme to become rock legend John Lennon after emerging from cryogenic sleep. But can he fool the people in the year 2108 (or is it 2180?) and live out his dream. (This story contains a fascinating afterword by Benford in which he discusses how he came to write this story, and his feelings about the death of John Lennon five years after it was written.) 1975 Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
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