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SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context <…> inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.
Источник: James E. Gunn and Matthew Candelaria, Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction, Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 343. ISBN 0-8108-4902-X

His Marxism, which remained his only irrational faith throughout his life, told him that surely the United States could never be a positive influence.
предисловие к «Последним и первым людям», 1987
Источник: Foreword (1987) by Gregory Benford // Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Series: SF Masterworks); London: Gollancz Books 1999, p. x.

Benford early established himself though his solo work as a leading writer of Hard SF, although much of his writing also has a lyrical aspect reminiscent of Poul Anderson, and his larger-scale tales have an almost impersonal sweep typical of the Scientific Romance epics of his younger contemporary Stephen Baxter,.. <…> Though his grasp of character sometimes falters, and complicated political/cultural arguments about the contemporary world are sometimes conveyed with excessive assurance, Benford's work continues to play formidable intellectual games with readers willing to think harder than normal...
Брайан Стэблфорд, Джон Клют, Энциклопедия научной фантастики, 2011
Источник: Benford, Gregory http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benford_gregory // SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, online edition, 2011—.

Источник: Timescape (1980), Chapter 25 (p. 305)

Part 5, Chapter 3 (p. 243)
Artifact (1985)

Источник: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 236, concerning cranks)

Источник: Timescape (1980), Chapter 10 (p. 110, concerning the nuclear club)

She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.”
Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Источник: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 342

Источник: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 338

Источник: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320

Источник: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 319

Источник: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 318

“A Scientist’s Notebook: Life on Mars?” in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997, p. 119

Short fiction, Aspects

Short fiction, Aspects

Источник: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 111

Источник: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 110

Источник: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 107

Cosm (1998), Part 6, Chapter 3 (p. 325)

Part 2, Chapter 10 (p. 111)
Cosm (1998)

Part III, “Beyond Pluto”, Chapter 4, “The Solar Ramparts” (p. 206)
The Sunborn (2005)

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 14, “This Immense Voyage” (p. 163)

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 5, “A Day at the Beach” (p. 114)

Part II, Chapter 4, “Disbelief” (p. 104)
The Sunborn (2005)

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 6, “Last Train Out of Dodge” (p. 71)

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 47)

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 38)

The Sunborn (2005), Part I, “Raw Mars”, Chapter 4, “Vent R” (p. 37)