Furious Gulf [Import] [Hardcover]

Gregory Benford (Author), John Dismukes (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; 1St Edition edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 057504067X
• ISBN-13: 978-0575040670
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,162,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gregory Benford, author of top-selling novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape, is that unusual creative combination of scientist scholar and talented artist; his stories capture readers - hearts and minds - with imaginative leaps into the future of science and of us.

A University of California faculty member since 1971, Benford has conducted research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. His published scientific articles include well over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.

Often called hard science fiction, Benford's stories take physics into inspired realms. What would happen if cryonics worked and people, frozen, were awoken 50 years in the future? What might we encounter in other dimensions? How about sending messages across time? And finding aliens in our midst? The questions that physics and scientists ask, Benford's imagination explores.
With the re-release of some of his earlier works and the new release of current stories and novels, Benford takes the lead in creating science fiction that intrigues and amuses us while also pushing us to think.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this whole series rocks - buy this series!, January 13, 2007

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Patrick E. Harvey (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Furious Gulf (Galactic Center) (Mass Market Paperback)

If you are in to hard core science fiction, you need this series. rockin!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars this is where the series lost me, October 18, 2010

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Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Furious Gulf (Galactic Center) (Mass Market Paperback)

So the human remnants are headed to the center of the galaxy. Unfortunately, even though I was a science journalist way back when, the concepts that Benford wants to get across - the high gravity environment, the differing passage of time, the energy beings that seem to have forgotten who they are yet still talk, all of which are related to the arcane world of modern physics, i.e. quantum gravity, etc. - were for the first time completely incomprehensible to me. Even worse, with some exceptions like Toby or the resurrected Shibo, Benford seems far more interested in his ideas than he is in characters or even a coherent plot. I could not get myself to care about the characters, to suspend my disbelief and get into the story as if it were possible, or even to doubt that the outcome would be stupidly predictable. I did not want to try very hard to understand the physics.

This is extremely unfortunate, because the first 4 books really held my attention as some of the best current scifi I had yet read, idea novels that had great characters. In a way, it is like Benford is trying to milk a good thing when the gland is already empty. He is pushing the grand concept novel to a logical extension, and it stretches things so far that it breaks.

Not recommended. He wrote this too quickly, didn't care to formulate a better plot, and essentially turned me off to his writing, which I regret.

3 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only the rocks rock in this lame duck series!, July 26, 2008

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M. V. Vooren "velvetpaws999" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Furious Gulf (Galactic Center) (Mass Market Paperback)

If you respect your intellectual capabilities and have no time to waste for useless, endless pages of non-sensical and irrational fiction, written by a guy who was probably on drugs while he did it, you won't waste your money on this. See my other review of the same author's series to find out details... I just can't bring myself to talk more about this brain dead stuff again!
I'd give him negative points if there were any!