Gregory

“When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.”
― Gregory Benford, Shipstar

“Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?”
― Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear

“Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name”
― Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear

“A big slice of the strange, a zap to the synaptic net, the shock of unending Otherness moistened with meaning, special stinks, grace notes, blaring daylight that illuminated without instructing. A marathon that addicted.
To wake up from cold sleep and go into that, fresh from the gewgaws and flashy bubble gum of techno-Earth, was – well, a consummation requiring digestion.
She could see that Redwing worried at this, could not let it go. Neither could she. Vexing thoughts came, flying strange and fragrant through her mind, but they were not problems, no. They were the shrapnel you carried, buried deep, wounds from meeting the strange.”
― Gregory Benford, Shipstar