A bibliography of works by American science fiction author Gregory Benford.
Novels The Adventures of Viktor & Julia NamePublishedISBNNotesThe Martian RaceWarner Aspect, 12/1999The SunbornWarner Aspect, 3/2005
Galactic Center Saga NamePublishedISBNNotesIn the Ocean of NightDial Press, 1976Nebula Award nominee, 1977;Locus Award nominee, 1978Across the Sea of SunsSimon & Schuster, 1/1984Great Sky RiverBantam Books, 12/1987reviewed by the LA TimesNebula Award nominee, 1988Tides of LightBantam Books, 1/1989reviewed by the LA TimesLocus Award nominee, 1990Furious GulfBantam Spectra, 7/1994reviewed by the LA TimesSailing Bright EternityBantam Spectra, 8/1995
Jupiter Projects NamePublishedISBNNotesJupiter ProjectThomas Nelson, 1975Against InfinityUltramarine Press, March 1983Nebula Award nominee, 1983
Other series contributions Man-Kzin Wars (with Larry Niven) NamePublishedISBNNotesMan-Kzin Wars VIBaen Books, 1994A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin NovelBaen Books, 8/1996co-authored with Mark O. Martin
Second Foundation
NamePublishedISBNNotesFoundation's FearHarper Prism, 1997
Non-series novels NamePublishedISBNNotesDeeper Than the Darkness (a.k.a. The Stars in Shroud)Ace Books, 1970TimescapeSimon & Schuster, 1980Nebula winner, 1980;British SF Award winner, 1980;Campbell Award winner, 1981;Locus Award nominee, 1981ArtifactSt. Martin's Press, 6/1985IcebornTor Double Novels, 11/1989with Paul A. CarterBeyond the Fall of NightPutnam Publishing, 7/1990Combined edition of Benford's novella "Beyond the Fall of Night" with Arthur C. Clarke's "Against the Fall of Night"CosmWarner Aspect, 2/1998EaterEos, 5/2000Locus Award nominee, 2001Beyond InfinityWarner Aspect, March 2004Expanded from the novella "Beyond the Fall of Night"Review: Beyond Infinity, Publishers Weekly, Retrieved 2017-04-24.The Berlin ProjectSimon & Schuster, 2017Rewrite: Loops in the TimescapeSimon & Schuster, 2019A "thematic sequel" to Benford's 1980 novel Timescape.Shadows of EternitySimon & Schuster, 2021
Collaborations NamePublishedISBNNotesIf the Stars Are GodsBerkley Books, 1977with Gordon EklundShiva DescendingSt. Martin's Press, 1980with William RotslerFind the ChangelingDell Publishing, 1980with Gordon EklundHeart of the CometBantam Spectra, 2/1986with David BrinLocus Award nominee, 1987Beyond the Fall of NightPutnam Publishing, 7/1990with Arthur C. ClarkeBowl of HeavenTom Doherty Associates, Tor Books 10/2012with Larry NivenShipstarTom Doherty Associates, Tor Books 04/2014with Larry NivenGloriousTom Doherty Associates, Tor Books 06/2020with Larry Niven
Short fiction Collections In Alien Flesh (March 1986) Matter's End (January 1995) Worlds Vast and Various (October 2000) Immersion and Other Short Novels (March 2002) Anomalies (March 2012) The Best of Gregory Benford (July 2015)
Standalone anthologies Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II (October 1986, with Martin H. Greenberg) Nuclear War (July 1988, with Martin H. Greenberg) Far Futures (December 1995) The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (November 1997, with Martin H. Greenberg) Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (April 2000) Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (April 2000, with George Zebrowski) Microcosms (January 2004) Merlin (July 2004, with Martin H. Greenberg) Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke (August 2010, with George Zebrowski) Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (August 2013, with James Benford)
"What Might Have Been" anthologies Alternate Empires (August 1989, with Martin H. Greenberg) Alternate Heroes (January 1990, with Martin H. Greenberg) Alternate Wars (December 1991, with Martin H. Greenberg) Alternate Americas (October 1992, with Martin H. Greenberg)
Short stories "Stand-In" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1965), collected in Matter's End "Representative From Earth" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1966) "Flattop" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1966) "Deeper Than the Darkness" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1969), nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970, expanded into the novel of the same name "Sons of Man" Amazing Stories (November 1969) "Nobody Lives on Burton Street" Amazing Science Fiction (May 1970), selected for Terry Carr's World's Best Science Fiction: 1971, reprinted in Amazing Stories May 1981, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford "The Scarred Man" Venture Science Fiction Magazine (May 1970), collected in Worlds Vast and Various "The Prince of New York" (with Laurence Littenberg) Fantastic (June 1970) "Treaty" (with David Book) Fantastic (August 1970) "3:02 p.m., Oxford" If (September/October 1970) "The Movement" Fantastic (October 1970) "Inalienable Rite" Quark/1 (November 1970) "But the Secret Sits" Galaxy Science Fiction (March 1971) "Star Crossing" (with Donald Franson) If (March/April 1971) "Battleground" (with Jim Benford) If (May/June 1971) "West Wind, Falling" (with Gordon Eklund Universe 1 (1971) "And the Sea Like Mirrors" Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) "In the Ocean of Night" Worlds of If (May/Jun 1972), later incorporated into the novel of the same name "Icarus Descending" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1973), later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night "Man in a Vice" Amazing Science Fiction (February 1974) "Nobody Lives Around There" Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974) "If the Stars Are Gods" (with Gordon Eklund) Universe 4 (March 1974), selected for Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (July 1975), winner of the Nebula Award in 1975, later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods "Threads of Time" Threads of Time (August 1974), later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night "Doing Lennon" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (April 1975), selected for Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5, nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in 1976, collected in In Alien Flesh, Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford "White Creatures" New Dimensions 5 (April 1975), nominated for the Nebula Award in 1976, collected in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "John of the Apocalypse" (with James Benford) Tomorrow Today (1975) "Beyond Grayworld" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (September 1975) "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M" Epoch (November 1975) "How It All Went" Amazing Stories (March 1976), reprinted in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) "The Anvil of Jove" (with Gordon Eklund) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1976), later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods "Seascape" (aka Pebble Among the Stars) Faster Than Light (1976), reprinted in The Crash of Empire "What Did You Do Last Year?" (with Gordon Eklund) Universe 6 (1976) "Marauder!" Alien Worlds (November 1976) "Hellas Is Florida" (with Gordon Eklund) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1977), later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods "Knowing Her" New Dimensions 7 (April 1977), collected in Matter's End "Homemaker" Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine (May 1977) "A Snark in the Night" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1977), nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1978, later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night "Nooncoming" Universe 8 (May 1978), collected in In Alien Flesh "Starswarmer" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (June 1978, first printing truncated due to an error, printed in full in the September issue), later incorporated into Tides of Light "In Alien Flesh" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1978), selected for The 1979 Annual World's Best SF and Best SF Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection, reprinted in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "Old Woman By the Road" Destinies (November/December 1978), selected for Thor's Hammer and The Best of Destinies (1980) "A Hiss of Dragon" (with Marc Laidlaw) Omni, (December 1978), selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 and The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction "Time Guide" Destinies (January/February 1979), collected in Matter's End "Calibrations and Exercises" New Dimensions 9 (April 1979), selected for The Best of New Dimensions, collected in Matter's End "Redeemer" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (April 1979), selected for Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection, reprinted in The Endless Frontier, Vol. II, collected in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "Dark Sanctuary" Omni (May 1979), reprinted in The Endless Frontier and Lightspeed (February 2012), collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford "Time Shards" Universe 9 (May 1979), selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9, reprinted in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "Titan Falling" Amazing Stories (August 1980) "Pick an Orifice" Destinies (November 1980) "Shall We Take a Little Walk?" Destinies (April 1981), reprinted in Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming "Cadenza" New Dimensions 12 (June 1981), collected in Matter's End "Exposures" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (July 1981), reprinted in The Road to Science Fiction #4: From Here to Forever, The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960–1990 and The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, reprinted in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "Slices" Destinies (August 1981), collected in Matter's End "Swarmer, Skimmer" Science Fiction Digest (October 1981), nominated for the Nebula Award in 1982, selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 "SF: Why We Read It" (poem) Amazing Stories (November 1981) "The Other Side of the River" Rigel Science Fiction (April 1982) "Valhalla" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1982), reprinted in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II "Lazarus Rising" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (July 1982), collected in Anomalies "Relativistic Effects" Perpetual Light (October 1982), selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, reprinted in The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, collected in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "Sandy Lust" (poem) The Berkley Showcase Volume 5 (October 1982) "The Touch" (based on "Continuidad de los parques", from Final del juego by Julio Cortázar) The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 5 (1983) "Me/Days" Universe 14 (June 1984), selected for The Science Fiction Yearbook, collected in In Alien Flesh "Time's Rub" Time's Rub (November 1984), reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (April 1985), Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder and Future on Ice, collected in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford "To the Storming Gulf" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1985), reprinted in Afterwar, Armageddon!, The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century and The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse, collected in In Alien Flesh and Immersion and Other Short Novels "Immortal Night" Omni (April 1985), collected in Matter's End "Of Space/Time and the River" Of Space/Time and the River (1985), reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (February 1986) and Future Earths: Under African Skies, selected for Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15, collected in In Alien Flesh, Immersion and Other Short Novels and The Best of Gregory Benford "Newton Sleep" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1986), reprinted in Heroes in Hell, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1987 "Snatching the Bot" In Alien Flesh (March 1986) (first English publication) "Blood on Glass" (poem) In Alien Flesh (March 1986), reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (mid-December 1986) "Dancing with the Straw Man" Far Frontiers, Volume V (May 1986)