GREGORY BENFORD is professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Irvine. Benford is a winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the Nebula Award for his classic novel Timescape.
LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf’s Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
Praise for Larry Niven:
“Niven lifts the reader far from the conventional world—and does it with a dash.”
—Los Angeles Times
“The premier hard-SF writer of the day.”
—The Baltimore Sun
Praise for Gregory Benford:
“Benford is one of our best.”
—Greg Bear, bestselling and award-winning author of Eon
“What sets Benford apart from most of the high-tech literary herd is his gift for characterization and language, his refusal to let gadgets overwhelm the people in his stories.... Benford never lets his characters become the animated cardboard cutouts that afflict too many hard science fiction stories.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
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