Gregory Benford bibliography

Novels

Other series contributions

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Short fiction

Collections

• ''The Best of Gregory Benford''

Standalone anthologies

• ''Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon''

"What Might Have Been" anthologies

• ''Alternate Americas''

Short stories

• "Stand-In" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, collected in Matter's End
• "Representative From Earth" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• "Flattop" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• "Deeper Than the Darkness" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970, expanded into the novel of the same name
• "Sons of Man" Amazing Stories
• "Nobody Lives on Burton Street" Amazing Science Fiction, 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, collected in Worlds Vast and Various
• "The Prince of New York" Fantastic
• "Treaty" Fantastic
• "3:02 p.m., Oxford" If
• "The Movement" Fantastic
• "Inalienable Rite" Quark/1
• "But the Secret Sits" Galaxy Science Fiction
• "Star Crossing" If
• "Battleground" If
• "West Wind, Falling"
• "And the Sea Like Mirrors" Again, Dangerous Visions
• "In the Ocean of Night" Worlds of If, later incorporated into the novel of the same name
• "Icarus Descending" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night
• "Man in a Vice" Amazing Science Fiction
• "Nobody Lives Around There" Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction
• "If the Stars Are Gods" Universe 4, selected for Terry Carr's The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4, winner of the Nebula Award in 1975, later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods
• "Threads of Time" Threads of Time, later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night
• "Doing Lennon" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 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, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1976, collected in In Alien Flesh and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "John of the Apocalypse" Tomorrow Today
• "Beyond Grayworld" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
• "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M" Epoch
• "How It All Went" Amazing Stories, reprinted in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
• "The Anvil of Jove" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods
• "Seascape" Faster Than Light, reprinted in The Crash of Empire
• "What Did You Do Last Year?" Universe 6
• "Marauder!" Alien Worlds
• "Hellas Is Florida" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, later incorporated into If the Stars Are Gods
• "Knowing Her" New Dimensions 7, collected in Matter's End
• "Homemaker" Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
• "A Snark in the Night" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1978, later incorporated into In the Ocean of Night
• "Nooncoming" Universe 8, collected in In Alien Flesh
• "Starswarmer" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, later incorporated into Tides of Light
• "In Alien Flesh" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 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, selected for Thor's Hammer and The Best of Destinies
• "A Hiss of Dragon" Omni,, selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 and The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction
• "Time Guide" Destinies, collected in Matter's End
• "Calibrations and Exercises" New Dimensions 9, selected for The Best of New Dimensions, collected in Matter's End
• "Redeemer" Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 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, reprinted in The Endless Frontier and Lightspeed, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Time Shards" Universe 9, 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
• "Pick an Orifice" Destinies
• "Shall We Take a Little Walk?" Destinies, reprinted in Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
• "Cadenza" New Dimensions 12, collected in Matter's End
• "Exposures" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 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, collected in Matter's End
• "Swarmer, Skimmer" Science Fiction Digest, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1982, selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11
• "SF: Why We Read It" Amazing Stories
• "The Other Side of the River" Rigel Science Fiction
• "Valhalla" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, reprinted in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II
• "Lazarus Rising" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, collected in Anomalies
• "Relativistic Effects" Perpetual Light, 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" The Berkley Showcase Volume 5
• "The Touch" The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 5
• "Me/Days" Universe 14, selected for The Science Fiction Yearbook, collected in In Alien Flesh
• "Time's Rub" Time's Rub, reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 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, 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, collected in Matter's End
• "Of Space/Time and the River" Of Space/Time and the River, reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 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, reprinted in Heroes in Hell, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1987
• "Snatching the Bot" In Alien Flesh
• "Blood on Glass" In Alien Flesh, reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
• "Dancing with the Straw Man" Far Frontiers, Volume V
• "Freezeframe" Interzone, reprinted in Amazing Stories, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "As Big as the Ritz" Interzone, reprinted in Alien Stars III: Under The Wheel, collected in Worlds Vast and Various
• "At the Double Solstice" At the Double Solstice, reprinted in Terry's Universe, collected in The Galactic Center Companion, 2nd Edition
• "The Gods of the Gaps" Crusaders in Hell
• "Bleak Velocities" Synergy: New Science Fiction, Number 1
• "What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?" Spaceships & Spells
• "Mandikini" The Universe, collected in The Galactic Center Companion, 2nd Edition
• "Proselytes" Full Spectrum, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "We Could Do Worse" We Could Do Worse, reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, What Might Have Been? Vol I: Alternate Empires and Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History, collected in Matter's End
• "All the Beer on Mars" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
• "Alphas" Amazing Stories, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection and The 1990 Annual World's Best SF
• "Proserpina's Daughter" Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 3, later expanded as Iceborn
• "Waiting for the Next Wave" Amazing Stories
• "Mozart on Morphine" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, reprinted in The Microverse, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Leviathan" Omni, collected in Matter's End
• "The Rose and the Scalpel" Time Gate, reprinted in Amazing Stories
• "Warstory" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
• "Latter-Day Martian Chronicles" Omni
• "The Eagle and the Cross" Dangerous Interfaces
• "Centigrade 233" Centigrade 233, reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury, collected in Matter's End and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Matter's End" Full Spectrum 3, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1993, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, reprinted in The Hard SF Renaissance, collected in Matter's End, Immersion and Other Short Novels and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Dread Moon" The Jupiter War
• "Manassas, Again" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, reprinted in What Might Have Been? Volume 3: Alternate Wars, The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century and The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories
• "Touches" Amazing Stories, collected in Matter's End
• "Down the River Road" After the King: Stories in Honor of J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Rumbling Earth" Aboriginal Science Fiction
• "World Vast, World Various" Murasaki, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Shakers of the Earth" The Ultimate Dinosaur, collected in Matter's End
• "The Dark Backward" Amazing Stories, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Doing Alien" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, collected in Worlds Vast and Various
• "The Bigger One" Science Fiction Age, collected in Matter's End
• "Not of an Age" Weird Tales from Shakespeare
• "The Trojan Cat" Man-Kzin Wars VI
• "Soon Comes the Night" Asimov's Science Fiction, nominated for the Nebula Award in 1996
• "Strong Instinct" South From Midnight
• "Side Effect" Matter's End
• "Sleepstory" Matter's End
• "Deep Eyes" Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• "Kollapse" Interzone #94, reprinted in Science Fiction Age and Lamps on the Brow, collected in Worlds Vast and Various
• "A Tapestry of Thought" Amazing Stories: The Anthology, reprinted in Amazing Stories
• "A Desperate Calculus" New Legends, reprinted in Armageddons, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "High Abyss" New Legends, collected in Worlds Vast and Various
• "A Worm in the Well" Analog Science Fiction and Fact, selected for Year's Best SF, reprinted in Free Space and The Space Opera Renaissance, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and Anomalies
• "Immersion" Science Fiction Age, 1997 SF Chronicle Award winner and 1997 Hugo Award nominee, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection, reprinted in The Hard SF Renaissance, collected in Immersion and Other Short Novels
• "Paris Conquers All" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, reprinted in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
• "Afterword: Retrospective" War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
• "Zoomers" Future Net, selected for Year's Best SF 2, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "The Voice" Science Fiction Age, selected for Year's Best SF 3, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "New Ninevehs" Future Histories
• "Galaxia" Science Fiction Age
• "A Cold Dry Cradle" Science Fiction Age, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, later expanded as The Martian Race
• "Ordinary Aliens" The UFO Files
• "A Pit Which Has No Bottom" Age of Wonder #1
• "Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time" Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "A Dance to Strange Musics" Science Fiction Age, selected for Year's Best SF 4, reprinted in Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons and The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF, collected in Worlds Vast and Various and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "A Hunger for the Infinite" Far Horizons, collected in The Galactic Center Companion, 2nd Edition
• "Taking Control" Nature
• "Three Gods" Interzone #171
• "Ménage à Trois" Interzone #173
• "Brink" Sci Fiction
• "Anomalies" Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, selected for Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 and Year's Best SF 7, reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Around the Curve of a Cosmos" Sci Fiction
• "Mammoth Dawn" Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• "The Goldilocks Problem" Once Upon a Galaxy
• "The Clear Blue Seas of Luna" Asimov's Science Fiction, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, reprinted in Clarkesworld #102
• "On the Edge" Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
• "Naturals" Interzone #191
• "The Hydrogen Wall" Asimov's Science Fiction, selected for Year's Best SF 9
• "Station Spaces" Space Stations
• "The First Commandment" Sci Fiction, selected for Year's Best SF 10
• "Blood's a Rover" Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System
• "On the Brane" Oceans of the Mind, selected for Year's Best SF 11
• "Twenty-Two Centimetres" Oceans of the Mind, reprinted in Other Worlds Than These, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Beyond Pluto" Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures
• "A Life with a Semisent" Nature, reprinted in Continuum Science Fiction and Futures from Nature, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "The Pain Gun" Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• "Iraqi Heat" In the Shadow of Evil
• "The Man Who Wasn't There" Cosmos, reprinted in Jim Baen's Universe, collected in Anomalies
• "Applied Mathematical Theology" Nature, selected for Year's Best SF 12, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Isaac from the Outside" Star*Line, collected in Anomalies
• "" Jim Baen's Universe, selected for The Best of Jim Baen's Universe and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Robowar" Jim Baen's Universe
• "The Gorgon's Head" Space Cadets
• "I Could've Done Better" Jim Baen's Universe
• "Dark Heaven" Alien Crimes, nominated for the Nebula Award in 2009, selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection
• "The Worm Turns" The New Space Opera, collected in Anomalies
• "How to Write a Scientific Paper" This Is My Funniest 2
• "Reasons Not to Publish" Nature Physics, selected for Year's Best SF 13, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "The Champagne Award" Nature, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "SETI for Profit" Nature
• "At the Singularity" Star*Line
• "Orbitfall" Jim Baen's Universe, reprinted in Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke
• "Ascending Everest" Jim Baen's Universe
• "Caveat Time Traveller" Nature, reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, reprinted in Anomalies
• "Black Smoker" Jim Baen's Universe
• "The Mars Mat" Jim Baen's Universe
• "Lathe of Evolution" Jim Baen's Universe
• "Paradise Afternoon" Flurb #8
• "The Grace of Tragedy" Jim Baen's Universe
• "Tiny Elephants" Jim Baen's Universe
• "The Final Now" Tor.com, collected in Anomalies
• "Penumbra" Nature, selected for Year's Best SF 16, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Shadows of the Lost" Gateways
• "Gravity's Whispers" Nature, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Mercies" Engineering Infinity, selected for Year's Best SF 17, collected in Anomalies and The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Eagle" Welcome to the Greenhouse, reprinted in Loosed Upon the World, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Grace Immaculate" Tor.com, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "The Sigma Structure Symphony" The Palencar Project, selected for Year's Best SF: 18, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Comes the Evolution" Anomalies, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Ol' Gator" Anomalies
• "Backscatter" Tor.com, collected in The Best of Gregory Benford
• "Think Big" Nature
• "Coda: Atmosphaera Incognita" Starship Century: Towards the Grandest Horizon
• "The Man Who Sold the Stars" Starship Century: Towards the Grandest Horizon, reprinted in Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
• "Leaving Night" Lightspeed
• "Bloodpride" Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds
• "Lady with Fox" Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction
• "Aspects" Meeting Infinity
• "Vortex" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Elderjoy" ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact''

Non-fiction

• Benford, Gregory. "Old Legends", first published in New Legends, The Wonderful Future That Never Was The Amazing Weapons That Never Were