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Gregory Benford – amerykański pisarz science fiction, a także astrofizyk. Laureat nagród Nebula i Campbella dla najlepszej powieści sf.

Uzyskał licencjat z fizyki na University of Oklahoma w 1963 r., a następnie magisterium na Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim w San Diego w 1965; tamże doktoryzował się w 1967 r. Obecnie pracuje na Wydziale Fizyki i Astronomii Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim w Irvine.

Jako pisarz sf debiutował w 1965 r. opowiadaniem Stand-In opublikowanym w „The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction“. Od 1969 rozpoczął prowadzenie kolumny naukowej w Amazing Stories. Zgodnie ze swym wykształceniem tworzy głównie hard science fiction. Najbardziej znanym jego dziełem jest cykl Saga Centrum Galaktyki, opowiadająca o nierównej walce niedobitków ludzkości ze sztuczną inteligencją.

Powieść Timescape została nagrodzona Nebulą i nagrodą Campbella. Drugą Nebulę otrzymał za nowelę If the Stars Are Gods .

Benford twierdzi, że w latach 60., po raz pierwszy opisał wirus komputerowy.

W 1967 r. ożenił się z Joan Abbe. Ma brata bliźniaka, Jima, z którym współpracuje przy tworzeniu prozy fantastycznej. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Styczeń 1941
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Gregory Benford: Cytaty po angielsku

“Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.”

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Gregory Benford książka Timescape

Afterword (p. 498)
Timescape (1980)

“But no, the friend’s indictment was off target; he simply liked them tall, as long as they didn’t slump down in a forlorn effort to appear shorter. It seemed obvious to him that no woman looked good trying to be something she wasn’t.”

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Part 2, Chapter 1 (p. 42)
Artifact (1985)

““You’ll never get it to follow orders.”
“Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can’t, you don’t ask for a slave to do it.””

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Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 3 (p. 68)
Against Infinity (1983)

““Free will again,” Cathy said.
“Or free won’t,” Peterson said mildly.”

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Gregory Benford książka Timescape

Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 23 (p. 291)

“Professors everywhere deplored examinations as an archaic technique, a fossil that recalled little red schoolhouses and memorizing the capitals of all the states. Regular progress and daily diligence mattered more, they felt, not an hour spent compressing months of learning onto a few sheets of paper. Far better to stress homework, classroom participation and the professor’s judgment. Regrettably, the large size of classes, and the requirements of society itself for pseudo-objective standards kept the exam structure firmly in place.”

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Part 4, Chapter 1 (pp. 155-156)
Artifact (1985)

“Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

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Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)

“You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y’know. Otherwise, the minority won’t be convinced and they won’t support the plan. No point havin’ people at your elbow who’re against what you’re doin’. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever’body agrees. More efficient in the long run.”

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Part 5 “Coming Home”, Chapter 3 (p. 179)
Against Infinity (1983)

“Must admit it felt good. First time in years anybody ever admitted I was right.”

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To the Storming Gulf, p. 142
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.”

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Gregory Benford książka Foundation's Fear

This is derived from the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." There are other variants which had inverted this including one known as Gehm's corollary http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/l/law.htm, published several years earlier : "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." The earliest variant seems to be "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." It has been called "Niven's Law" and attributed to Larry Niven by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case — the earliest occurrence yet located is an anonymous one in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Foundation's Fear (1997)

“It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.”

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Gregory Benford książka Timescape

Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 39 (p. 411)

“There’s plenty—”
“Plenty is exactly what there’s none of.”

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Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 6 (p. 87)
Against Infinity (1983)

“That was what drew him to mathematics. Not because it was rarefied, but because it probed to the subtle, deeper reality. People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn’t make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn’t give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.”

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Part 2, Chapter 6 (p. 76)
Artifact (1985)

“I would have to look, try to find a bridge that would make plausible what I knew but could scarcely prove. The standards of science are austere, unforgiving—and who would have it differently? I would have to hedge, to take one step back for each two forward, to compare and suggest and contrast, always sticking close to the data. And despite what I thought I knew now, the data would have to lead, they would have to show the way.”

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Exposures, p. 244
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“Hubris. They disliked questions unless there were clear answers. They believed so much in their method that they conjured up certainty out of undeniable risk.”

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Part 6, Chapter 6 (p. 349)
Artifact (1985)

““The peers just fill the air with their speeches.”
“And from what I've seen, vice versa.””

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Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 5 (p. 46)

“Thunder impresses, but it’s lightning does the work.”

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Time’s Rub, p. 253 (Originally published in Asimov’s, April 1985)
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“Archeology is mostly a process of making associations between objects, and every discovery opens up possible resonances with things we already have. Sometimes, simply wandering through a museum or a site can open your eyes.”

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Part 3, Chapter 1 (p. 107)
Artifact (1985)

“This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.”

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Part 5, Chapter 4 (p. 246)
Artifact (1985)

“In popularizing a scientific development it was always crucial to sail the narrow strait between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public befuddlement.”

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Part 5, Chapter 7 (p. 270)
Artifact (1985)

“Once introduced into this world, life would never leave—there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.”

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Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 4 (p. 226)
Against Infinity (1983)

“At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.”

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Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 11 (p. 134, concerning the USA)

“Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.”

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Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 445)

“There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.”

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Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 231)

“A science fiction writer is—or should be—constrained by what is, or logically might be. That can mean simple fidelity to facts (which, in science, are always more important than theories—though Lord knows the two help shape each other, undermining the convenient, complacent separation of observer and observed). To me it also means heeding the authentic, the actual and concrete. Bad fiction uses the glossy generality; good writing needs the smattering of detail, the unrelenting busy mystery of the real.”

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Afterword to Exposures, p. 246
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“They will do anything for the worker, except become one.”

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Źródło: Timescape (1980), Chapter 5 (p. 46, concerning the peers)

“Nothing could be sure it was itself the original. So the only intelligent course lay in enjoying whatever life a being felt—living like a mortal, in the moment.”

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Time’s Rub, p. 261
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.”

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Part 5, Chapter 4 (p. 245)
Artifact (1985)

“Major Sánchez grunted. “Nice word, ‘trivial.’ Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don’t—””

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Part 1 “Beyond Sidon”, Chapter 2 (p. 12)
Against Infinity (1983)

“She stood up. “Professional? Ha! My father used to say, you have to be able to tell a tracheotomist from a cutthroat. Well, I can.””

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Artifact (1985), Part 4, Chapter 4 (p. 186)