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Name: Far futures
Author: Gregory Benford

Far Futures assembles five original novellas, all set at least ten thousand years into the future. Gregory Benford and his collaborators confront the grand challenges of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology, presenting a rigorous scientific perspective on humanity’s far‑future prospects.

First publish date: 1995

Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction

Authors: Gregory Benford

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