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Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.

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Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

Comfort, Dream, Frustration, Life, Luxury

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

Afraid, Biggest, Biggest Mistake, Making, Mistake

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

Change, Clarity, Game, Games, Losing

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

Back, Mean, Moving, Space

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

Glove, Iron, Math, Potential, Real

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

Air, Peers, Seen, Vice, Vices

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

England, Guaranteed, Nothing, Prosperous, Taste

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Advanced, Distinguishable, Magic, Sufficiently, Technology

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Available, Information, Inversely, Passion, Real

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average. ""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

Average, Gordon, Law, Nature, People

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

Deep, Moves, Moving, Sea, Wind

Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

Cutting, Face, Ideas, Like, Machine, People

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

Contraceptive, Contraceptives, Ugliness

To shine is better than to reflect.

Reflect, Shine, Shining

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

Chemistry, Experiments, Right, Work

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Burst, Fear, Identity, People, Self, Selves

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Curiously, Matter, Plan, Plans, Real, Unreal

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

Become, Except, Worker, Workers

I don't get even, I get odder.

Odder

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.

Conflicting, Continuing, Forever, Literature, Steady, Voice

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