Gregory Benford
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Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga science fiction novels, beginning with ''In the Ocean of Night'' (1977). The series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.
In 1969 he wrote "The Scarred Man", the first story about a computer virus (based on a real computer virus he had spread), published in 1970. Provided by Wikipedia