Galactic Center Series by Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Dan Simmons, Frederik Pohl, Anne McCaffrey, Gregory Benford, Robin Sachs

3.74 · 95 ratings
  • The Galactic Center Companion (Galactic Center #0.5)
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    The Galactic Center Companion (Galactic Center #0.5)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2014

    Death came in on sixteen legs. So begins a novella set in the Galactic Center series, “A Hunger for the Infinite.” Now this novella and much other writing about the science and fiction in the series, appears in one volume. Unique in literature, the series comes from the author’s own scientific research. The series took a quarter century to complete, and Benford traces his own research into the strange structures there, first discovered in the 1980s... more

  • In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center #1)
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    In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center #1)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1977

    Contains Introduction EssayCover Artist: Don Dixon2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: Then a reply is heard... more

  • Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center #2)
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    Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center #2)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1984

    In 2021, radio astronomy on the Moon reveals the presence of life by a nearby red dwarf, on a tide-locked planet.[1] To investigate, Earth's governments convert a space colony into Lancer, a Bussard ramjet powered interstellar ship based on the design of a crashed alien ship discovered in the Mare Marginis. In 2061, it arrives and discovers a primitive race of nomads, broadcasting using organs adapted to emit and receive electromagnetic radiation... more

  • Great Sky River (Galactic Center #3)
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    Great Sky River (Galactic Center #3)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1987

    After the events of Across the Sea of Suns, small groups of humans have settled on other star systems. However, there is a constant threat from the Mechs, a civilization of machines left over from other civilizations and evolved to see all biological civilization as unstable and dangerous.Great Sky River tells the story of the Bishop family, who fight for their very existence on the planet Snowglade, which has been taken over by the Mechs... more

  • Tides of Light (Galactic Center #4)
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    Tides of Light (Galactic Center #4)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1989

    Now in a new, revised edition, the fourth book of the Nebula Award-winning author's Galactic Center series is a classic tale of man's future and fate--and the greatest mystery from outer space that humanity has ever encountered.

  • Furious Gulf (Galactic Center #5)
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    Furious Gulf (Galactic Center #5)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1994

    Containing the remnants of humanity from the planet Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward its uncertain destiny, the bold and brilliant Captain Killeen at its helm. But he has grown increasingly isolated and anguished in command. The ship’s gardens are failing, its voyagers face starvation, and there are dark whispers within, talk of mutiny. Killeen’s will, however, remains as strong as ever, his determination to reach the True Center of the galaxy bordering on obsession... more

  • Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction (Galactic Center #5.5)
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    Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction (Galactic Center #5.5)

    Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Dan Simmons, Frederik Pohl, Anne McCaffrey, Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 1999

    The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worlds in perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction ever in one volume.

  • A Hunger for the Infinite (Galactic Center #5.5)
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    A Hunger for the Infinite (Galactic Center #5.5)

    Gregory Benford, Robin Sachs

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1999

    A Hunger for the Infinite, which first appeared in Robert Silverberg's "Far Horizons" anthology, is a novella that takes place in the universe of "The Galactic Center Saga", detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life. Here, the pilots had made it to True Center in order to destroy something, anything, important to the Mechs, but Paris had something else on his mind. A story of the Mantis, and the decline of humans beginning in 3600 AD.

  • Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Center #6)
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    Sailing Bright Eternity (Galactic Center #6)

    Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1995

    This new, special edition of the classic concluding volume of this defining series by the eminent physicist and Nebula Award-winning author contains a teaser chapter from Benford's new hardcover, "The Sunborn."

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