To change the environment and make it more like Earth's. Job is to hunt "muties" - mutations of the bio-designed creatures set free on Ganymede's surface As a 13-year-old boy, Manuel Lopez travelsįor the first time out into the wastes of Ganymede with his father and a group of other men. Hospitable to human life and endeavor than Earth is. Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system, about the size of Earth, but it is much less This is the world called Ganymede that Gregory Benford has constructed, quite Actions must be taken quickly and decisively, or eternal death - deathīeyond the reach of mankind's ability to repair and rebuild itself with machines and plastic.
Quickly that the cells split and pop with the suddenness of the cold, there is little time for In a world where liquid ammonia flows in icy streams and a man's body parts can freeze so Tides of Light (1989) and Furious Gulf (1994). Galactic Center series, including Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River (1987), He is the author of a series of hard SF novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1978) and following quickly with works such as Timescape (1980) and the popular Gregory Benford is a physicist and astronomer at the University of California, Irvine. (Oct.The SF Site Featured Review: Against Infinity 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. 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.
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