Gregory Benford

Culture

A Partial Space Science Fiction Reading List

From Robert Heinlein to Joan Slonczewski

Gregory Benford | 2.2.2012 10:30 AM

Culture

Science Fiction Faces Facts

NASA has fizzled, but Wernher von Braun's exuberant vision lives on.

Gregory Benford | 1.25.2012 10:30 AM

Science & Technology

Choosing Our Own Future

Will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?

Gregory Benford | 4.23.2009 12:00 PM

Culture

Theological Science Fiction

Why The Matrix matters

Gregory Benford | 5.23.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Leaping the Abyss

Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe.

Gregory Benford | 4.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Future Shocks

Great books for the biological century

Bruce Ames, Ronald Bailey, Gregory Benford, Daniel Botkin, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Lorenzo Milam, Daphne Patai, Thomas Petzinger, Eric Rabkin, Ed Regis, Michael Ruse, Michael Schrage, Lee Silver, Gregory Stock, Jacob Sullum, John Tierney, and Frederick Turner | 12.1.1999 12:00 AM

Politics

Yesterday's Tomorrows: 1968-1998

Books that got the future right--and wrong

Walter Anderson, Ronald Bailey, Gregory Benford, K. Drexler, Charles Paul Freund, Michael Fumento, Steven Hayward, Charles Murray, John V.C. Nye, Walter Olson, Randal O'Toole, John Pitney, Robert Poole, Virginia Postrel, Adam Powell III, John Reed, and Lynn Scarlett | 12.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

The Stars My Consternation

Gregory Benford | 8.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Climate Controls

If we treated global warming as a technical problem instead of a moral outrage, we could cool the world.

Gregory Benford | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Culture

Selfness

Gregory Benford | 1.1.1997 12:00 AM

Culture

Evolving Door

Gregory Benford | 11.1.1996 12:00 AM

Culture

alt.fans

The Internet is recapitulating science fiction fandom.

Gregory Benford | 1.1.1996 12:00 AM

Politics

Biology: 2001

Understanding culture, technology, and politics in "The Biological Century"

Gregory Benford | 11.1.1995 12:00 AM

Culture

The Science of Art

Gregory Benford | 5.1.1995 12:00 AM

Extracurricular Reading

Books every college student should read

Gregory Benford, Stephen Cox, William Dennis, Thomas W. Hazlett, Loren Lomasky, Mark Martin, Donald McCloskey, Richard Mitchell, Ethan Nadelmann, Steven Postrel, Paul Rahe, John Reed, and Lynn Scarlett | 12.1.1994 12:00 PM

The Designer Plague

If humanity is a cancer, what is the cure?

Gregory Benford | 1.1.1994 12:00 PM

Designer Universe

Gregory Benford | 12.1.1987 12:00 PM

Are Diamonds Forever, and Other Conundrums of Modern Physics

Gregory Benford | 12.1.1986 12:00 PM

Dissolving the Nuclear Suicide Pact

Gregory Benford | 2.1.1985 12:00 PM