Gregory Benford Zitate

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Kontext: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

The Snark, p. 195
In the Ocean of Night (1977)
Kontext: Organic forms are in the universe of things and also reside in the universe of essences. There we cannot go. … You are a spontaneous product of the universe of things. We are not. This seems to give you … windows. It was difficult for me to monitor your domestic transmissions, they fill up with branches, spontaneous paths, nuances…

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 234)

To the Storming Gulf, p. 126 (Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1985)
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 4 (p. 226)
Against Infinity (1983)

Part 4 “Hiruko: Six Years Later”, Chapter 1 (p. 148)
Against Infinity (1983)

Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 2 (p. 51)
Against Infinity (1983)

Redeemer, p. 53 (Originally published in Analog, April 1979)
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Time’s Rub, pp. 260-261
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 3 (p. 221)
Against Infinity (1983)

White Creatures, p. 170 (Originally published in New Dimensions 5, edited by Robert Silverberg), 1975
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 17 (p. 235)

Doing Lennon, p. 266 (Originally published in Analog, April 1975)
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 37 (p. 395)

Doing Lennon, p. 268
In Alien Flesh (1986)

The Snark, a member of a machine-intelligence civilization, p. 195
In the Ocean of Night (1977)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 16 (p. 220)

Afterword to Nooncoming, p. 104
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 16 (p. 229)

Part 2, Chapter 6 (p. 80; ellipsis represents a minor elision of narration)
Artifact (1985)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 27 (p. 322)

Part 1, Chapter 1 (p. 10)
Artifact (1985)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 11 (p. 146)

Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 86)
Artifact (1985)

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 3 (p. 68)
Against Infinity (1983)

Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 1 (p. 45)
Against Infinity (1983)

Exposures, p. 232 (Originally published in Asimov’s, July 6, 1981)
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Quelle: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 441)