Gregory Benford

by George Edgar Slusser and George Slusser

Book Overview

Gregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." That maxim is a quotation from Timescape , Benford's Nebula and Campbell Award-winning 1980 novel, which established his work as an exemplar of "hard science fiction," dedicated to working out the consequences of modern science rather than substituting pseudoscience for fantasy. An astrophysicist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079809
• ISBN13: 9780252079801
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"