Who is “Gregory Benford” and what is a “Gregory Benford Moment?
Gregory Benford is the Author of Foundation’s Fear which is an entry into the Foundation series of Novels that Isaac Asimov wrote. After the death of Asimov, his estate allowed Benford and two other… hacks… to draft a series of questions that they were curious about from Asimov’s books and answer them in a new trilogy of novels. Unfortunately these questions were already all answered by Asimov himself within the text of the various Foundation Novels he wrote! Undaunted, Benford and company made up their own story without paying attention to what Asimov had written, regardless of the vast lapses in continuity that this caused. Although I intend to explore these in more detail, one of the worst insults was the invention of “Tiktoks,” or anthropomorphic thinking machines (commonly referred to in English as… “robots”). Asimov made it clear that Robots didn’t exist in this time (which is a major plot point when it is revealed that at least one was there the entire time)! Benford makes
