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2011 Guest of Honor

Gregory 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.

Special Guest - Herbert Jefferson Jr

Veteran actor, Herbert Jefferson Jr. is known to many as Lieutenant Boomer from the original 'Battlestar Galactica'.

In a career spannig 4 decades, Jefferson was a series co-star in Rich Man, Poor Man with Nick Nolte, as well as, it's sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, the Revolutionary War mini-series The Bastard, Yellow Rose with Sam Elliott and Cybill Shephard, and The Devlin Connection with Rock Hudson and Jack Scalia. Jefferson has also guest starred in scores of episodes of series TV, including ER, Sister Sister, Hill Street Blues, Police Story, Airwolf, T.J. Hooker, Quincy, The Streets of San Francisco, White Shadow, Knight Rider, McCloud and Mission Impossible to name but a few.

His most recent TV appearance was in the recurring role of Police Chief Price on the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach. His many feature film credits include Apollo 13, Outbreak, Detroit 9000, Black Gunn, The Slams, One Dozen and most recently Star Trek: Of God’s and Men as freedom fighter Captain Galt.

Jefferson's extensive theatre credits include two Pulitzer Prize winning plays. The Great White Hope and No Place To Be Somebody. He was directed by Mike Nichols in the David Rabe play Streamers, which went on to win Best New American Play of the Year by the New York drama critics. A New York trained actor studying at the Herbert Berghof Studio, the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg, and an Alumnus of New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Jefferson has appeared in productions on Broadway and off Broadway.

In his spare time, Jefferson has been and continues to be an active supporter and volunteer with the U.S. Military by way of the USO, the IAVA, the Paralyzed Veterans Association, Operation Stand Down, U.S. Navy Public Affairs and the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, and is also a 37 year volunteer with the Special Olympics

All guest appearances are subject to professional commitments.

Previous Guests of Honor pages are online for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 or 2006 or view our history page.