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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Gregory Benford
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Spectra, Gollancz, Dial Press/James Wade
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781306758611
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“He found the flying mountain by its shadow.”
Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author 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. Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his resear
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