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2011 Guest of Honor

Gregory BenfordGregory Benford has published over forty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape.

A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. He won Japan’s Seiun Award for Dramatic Presentation with his 7-hour series, A Galactic Odyssey. In 2007 he won the Asimov Award for science writing. In 2006 he co-founded Genescient, a biotech company devoted to extending human longevity.
           
His 1999 analysis of what endures, Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, has been widely read. A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, he continues his research in both astrophysics and plasma physics and biotech. Time allowing, he continues to write both fiction and nonfiction.

His latest books are the just published SF novel, Find the Changeling, and The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past, to be published in fall 2010.

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You can obtain more of his Science Fiction books at our local Mysterious Galaxy store.

All guest appearances are subject to professional commitments.

Previous Guests of Honor pages are online for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 or 2006 or view our history page.

 
Guests of Honor

Guest of Honor
CJ Charrah

Gregory Benford
Physicist, Educator, Author

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