Working in a confined space, one must render the essentials and get off the stage with a minimum of fuss."" While faithfully following that advice, Benford (who is also a working physicist) ably demonstrates the falseness of the old literary saw that scientists don't make good fiction writers-or popular ones: Benford always sells well, and this book will, too, though not as well as his novels.
In a short afterword, Benford writes, ""All short stories are strategies. Scott Fitzgerald out for an SF spin, and ""In the Dark Backward"" is a lighthearted time-travel story with a nifty twist ending. ""A Worm in the Well"" is old-fashioned high adventure in space, while ""The Voice"" keeps its traditional heart closer to home, with riffs from Golden Age writers like Asimov and Bradbury. For readers who treasure scientifically rigorous settings, ""High Abyss"" and ""A Dance to Strange Musics"" offer a fine blend of the exotic and surprising.
""Doing Aliens"" and ""World Vast, World Various"" present some of the possible relationships-or lack thereof-between humans and aliens. The gripping ""A Calculus of Desperation"" demonstrates the brutal lengths to which truly dedicated environmentalists could go to keep humanity from devastating Earth.
The 10 stories and two novellas here offer a neat cross-section of Benford's writing career. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.For readers more familiar with this acclaimed hard-SF author's illuminating and genre-stretching novels (Eater Cosm etc.), this story collection is an excellent chance to discover his equally adept shorter work. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Beyond Infinity written by Gregory Benford which was published in 2004. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. Brief Summary of Book: Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford.
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