Gregory Benford has published over twenty books, mostly novels.   Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century.   His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape.   A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.   He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.

His 1999 analysis of what endures, Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia, has been widely read.   A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, he continues his research in both astrophysics and plasma physics.