Series
Ocean / Galactic Center
Gregory Benford · 6 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1972–1999
The Galactic Center Saga is a series of books by author Gregory Benford detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life.In the Ocean of Night (1977) — 1977 Nebula Award nominee, 1978 Locus Award nominee Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) — 1988 Nebula Nominee Tides of Light (1989) — 1990 Locus Award nominee Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1996) "A Hunger for the Infinite" a novella published in the anthology Far Horizons
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Nigel Walmsley(6 works)
Map
Ocean / Galactic Center at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s5
- 1980s4
- 1990s3
Shape
6 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes
1 author
Mood
Grim and intense: 91% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book11 of 12 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sailing Bright Eternitydarkest
- In the Ocean of Nightbrightest · calmest
- Icarus Descendingmost intense