Editing Gregory Benford (section)

== Writing career ==
Gregory Benford's first professional sale was the story "Stand-In" in the ''[[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' (June 1965), which won second prize in a short story contest based on a poem by [[Doris Pitkin Buck]]. In 1969, he began writing a science column for ''[[Amazing Stories]]''.

Benford tends to write [[hard science fiction]] which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist.  He has worked on collaborations with authors [[William Rotsler]], [[David Brin]] and [[Gordon Eklund]]. His time-travel novel ''[[Timescape]]'' (1980) won both the [[Nebula Award]] and the [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]].  This [[procedural (genre)|scientific procedural]] novel eventually loaned its title to a line of science fiction published by [[Timescape Books|Pocket Books]]. In the late 1990s, he wrote ''[[Foundation's Fear]]'', one of an authorized sequel trilogy to [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[Foundation (book series)|''Foundation'' series]].  Other novels published in that period include several near-future science thrillers: ''Cosm'' (1998), ''The Martian Race'' (1999) and ''[[Eater (novel)|Eater]]'' (2000).{{citation needed|reason=The MIT SF Society website mentions no such prize.|date=July 2016}}

Benford has served as an editor of numerous [[alternate history]] anthologies, as well as collections of [[Hugo Award]] winners.

He has been nominated for four [[Hugo Award]]s (for two short stories and two novellas) and 13 [[Nebula Award]]s (in all categories).  In addition to ''Timescape'', he won the Nebula for the novelette "If the Stars Are Gods" (with Eklund).

Benford was a guest of honour at [[Aussiecon Three]], the 1999 [[Worldcon]]. He remains{{as of?|date=February 2019}} a regular contributor to science fiction fanzines, for example ''[[Apparatchik (fanzine)|Apparatchik]]'' (defunct as of 1997).

In 2016 Benford was the recipient of the [[Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society]] [[Forry Award]] Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Science Fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/10/benford-wins-forry-award/|title=Locus Online News » Benford Wins Forry Award|last=Publications|first=Locus|website=www.locusmag.com|date=3 October 2016|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref>