Further collaborative work includes If the Stars Are Gods (fixup 1977) with Gordon Eklund – the original version of whose title-piece 'If the Stars are Gods' (in Universe 4, anth 1974, ed Terry Carr) won a Nebula in 1975 – and the less impressive Find the Changeling ( 1980) with Eklund his Disaster novel Shiva Descending ( 1980) with William Rotsler also fails to convey the imaginative and cognitive energy of his solo work. Over his long career, he occasionally published work in collaboration with other authors, and also published as by Sterling Blake, though his most distinguished work was solo.Įarly collaborations include some stories with his identical-twin brother, the experimental physicist James Benford (1941- ), and a series of regular articles on The Science in SF for Amazing Stories initially with David Book 1969-1972 Benford continued the series solo, somewhat less regularly, until 1976. He began to publish fiction of interest with 'Stand-In' in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for June 1965, which won second place in a contest organized by the magazine. His first involvement in sf was with Fandom: he edited a notable Fanzine, Void, with various co-editors including Ted White and Terry Carr.

(1941- ) US astrophysicist and author in 1971 he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine, rising to Professor of Plasma Physics and Astrophysics in 1979, a position he held until 2006, when he formally resigned in order to participate in a new bio-tech corporation dedicated to unplumbing the genetic governors of ageing in humans.

The berlin project by gregory benford