Order of Gregory Benford Books
Gregory Benford is an American author of science fiction novels. He writes the Galactic Center series. In addition to writing science fiction, he is also an astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
Gregory Benford made his debut as a novelist in 1970 with the novel Deeper Than the Darkness. Below is a list of Gregory Benford’s books in order of when they were originally published:
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Publication Order of Galactic Center Books
| In the Ocean of Night | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Across the Sea of Suns | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Sky River | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tides of Light | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Furious Gulf | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sailing Bright Eternity | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Hunger for the Infinite | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Galactic Center Companion | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Bowl Of Heaven Books
(with Larry Niven)
| Bowl of Heaven | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shipstar | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Glorious | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jupiter Project Books
| Jupiter Project | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Against Infinity | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Martian Race Books
| The Martian Race | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sunborn | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Second Foundation Trilogy Books
| Foundation's Fear | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Foundation and Chaos | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Foundation's Triumph | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Timescape Books
| Timescape | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rewrite | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Stars in Shroud / Deeper than the Darkness | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| If the Stars Are Gods | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shiva Descending | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Find the Changeling | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Time's Rub | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Artifact | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond the Fall of Night | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cosm | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chiller | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eater | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Infinity | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Berlin Project | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows of Eternity | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Final Now | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grace Immaculate | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Down The River Road | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Backscatter | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mammoth Dawn | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| In Alien Flesh | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Matter's End | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worlds Vast and Various | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Immersion & Other Short Novels | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Anomalies | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Ball Games for the Future | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Habitats in Space | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deep Time | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Skylife | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Human | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of What Might Have Been Books
(with Martin H. Greenberg)
| Alternate Empires | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alternate Heroes | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alternate Wars | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alternate Americas | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Man-Kzin Wars Books
Publication Order of John M. Ford Short Story Collections
| Under the Wheel | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Casting Fortune | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| From the End of the Twentieth Century | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heat of Fusion and Other Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Heroes in Hell Books
| Heroes in Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Gates of Hell | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kings in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crusaders in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Angels in Hell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Little Helliad | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| War in Hell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prophets in Hell | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lawyers in Hell | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Poets in Hell | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Nebula Award Stories Ten | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Digest, October-November 1981 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hitler Victorious | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Full Spectrum 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Amazing Stories, March 1990 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Jupiter War | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1991 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After the King | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murasaki | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alternate Americas | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under African Skies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Far Futures | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV, 1992-1994 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Amazing Stories | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Far Horizons | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 4 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Could Do Worse: A Millennial Collection of Alternate Histories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Analog, October 2003 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hard SF Renaissance | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Microcosms | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A.I.s | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Cadets | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 11 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The 2007 Rhysling Anthology | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Jim Baen's Universe | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Is My Funniest 2 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 13 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of Asfr: Australian SF Review | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 16 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Multiverse | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hieroglyph | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Carbide Tipped Pens | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Gregory Benford | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Loosed Upon the World | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lightspeed Magazine, October 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Visions of the Future | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bridging Infinity | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Across the Universe | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction and the Dismal Science | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Life Beyond Us | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: The Bowl of Heaven series is written with Larry Niven. If the Stars Are Gods and Find the Changeling are co-authored by Gordon Eklund. Shiva Descending is written with William Rotsler. The Heart of the Comet is written with David Brin. Beyond the Fall of Night is co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke. Chiller is written with Sterling Blake. A Darker Geometry was co-authored by Mark O. Martin. Iceborn was co-authored by Paul A. Carter. Mammoth Dawn is written with Kevin J. Anderson. The Jupiter War is written with Bill Fawcett. Man-Kzin Wars VI was created by Larry Niven.Skylife was written with George Zebrowski. Beyond Human was co-authored by Elisabeth Malartre.
Hitler Victorious, Nuclear War, Alternate Empires, Alternate Americas, The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 4 were edited with Martin H. Greenberg. The Best of Gregory Benford was edited with David G. Hartwell. Deeper Than the Darkness was also published as The Stars in Shroud.
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