In the Ocean of Night (Gregory Benford) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

About the Author

Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa, and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science, and in 2003 became a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. Presently he is a consultant to NASA on methods of advanced propulsion, to develop a new form of very-high-altitude craft for the upper atmosphere. He also has been a longtime advisor to the CIA on threat assessment. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. Dr. Benford makes his home in Laguna Beach, California.