Timescape Resources

Gregory Benford's digital home provides all sorts of information on the author, Timescape and a bunch of his other books. The best part: You don't need any fancy science fiction gadgets to access it, unless, of course, you count the Internet as sci-fi. Which it kind of is.

The Goodreads page for Timescape. Stop by to read users' thoughts on the story, leave your own ideas, and add it to your shelf to show everyone that you conquered this beast of a book.

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has everything you could ever want to know about Timescape. Curious about what awards the novel's won? They can tell you. Want to know how many different versions exist? They know. Desperate for the title in French? Look no further, and learn the German and Italian ones while you're there.

Challenger presents a transcript of Benford's class reunion speech at UC San Diego in 1985. It even comes with James Benford's introduction, complete with a family-styled ribbing.

Writing for Science Fiction Studies, Benford discusses the role real science played in his developing Timescape's tachyon-rich plot.

In this blog post, Benford muses over cosmology, theology, physics, science fiction, and the end of the entire universe. He might not mention Timescape directly, but there are some interesting ideas we can't help but feel connect to a novel about humanity's struggle against the inevitable. Depressingly interesting stuff here.

John Foyster interviews Benford about the role science plays in hard science fiction.

AboutSF discusses the role alternative timelines have played in science fiction. Care to guess what novel gets brought into the mix?

Andy fills a unique niche: His website explores only the themes of time travel and alternate universes in literature. It was only a matter of time before Timescape and he crossed paths.

Benford discusses research that has led to a longer, more prosperous lifespan for fruit flies. It might help people down the road, too.

The great overlord of our modern era, Google, invites Benford and Larry Niven to discuss their book Bowl of Heaven. It isn't Timescape, but you might notice some thematic connective tissue between this discussion and Benford's Nebula winner.

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting show from the 1990s that discussed topics related to speculative fiction. Think Mystery Science Theater 3000 molecularly combined with a literature course, and you've got the gist. In this episode, Commander Rick discusses time travel with some of science fiction's luminaries, including Benford. 

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Pete Bradbury narrates all four hundred plus pages of Timescape for fifteen hours and thirty-nine minutes of easy reading. Well, easy for the listener, at least.

Simply Audiobooks allows you to rent the audiobook of Timescape if you're not one for commitment.

You know his name; now get to know his face. Here's a picture of the one, the only—in this universal reality at least—Gregory Benford.

Why did we include this authorial photo? Because on Wednesdays we wear pink.

The first-edition cover of Timescape in its chaotic glory.

Two Earths communicate with each other for this cover.

This fan art superimposes the Earth of 1968 and 1998 into a wonderful homage to Benford's novel.