Eater
oct 2009 · Harper Collins
4.2star
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A scientist facing personal tragedy discovers a sentient black hole targeting humanity in this hard sci-fi thriller from “a superb storyteller” (Houston Post).
Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s private world is crumbling around him. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist learns that his beloved wife and partner, Channing—an ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying of cancer.
Meanwhile, something looms alarmingly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed . . . and feared.
“A celestial horror tale, a cosmological adventure, a literate end-of-the-world epic, and a story bursting with old-fashioned ‘sense of wonder.’” —Orlando Sentinel
“Benford spins poetry from textbook phenomena . . . [His] novel proves that scientific wisdom involves the heart and soul as well as the mind.” —The Washington Post Book World
“The scientific equivalent of a taut police procedural . . . Benford’s deft, suspenseful weaving of the struggle between Eater and humanity blends two threads with maximal impact.” —Newark Star Ledger
“Even in the face of huge events and special effects sequences, Benford manages to keep the characters and the human-scale issues important . . . It’s just this kind of juggling that characterizes the best of Benford’s work . . . Eater is Benford’s most Benfordesque book in quite a while.” —Locus
Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s private world is crumbling around him. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist learns that his beloved wife and partner, Channing—an ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying of cancer.
Meanwhile, something looms alarmingly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed . . . and feared.
“A celestial horror tale, a cosmological adventure, a literate end-of-the-world epic, and a story bursting with old-fashioned ‘sense of wonder.’” —Orlando Sentinel
“Benford spins poetry from textbook phenomena . . . [His] novel proves that scientific wisdom involves the heart and soul as well as the mind.” —The Washington Post Book World
“The scientific equivalent of a taut police procedural . . . Benford’s deft, suspenseful weaving of the struggle between Eater and humanity blends two threads with maximal impact.” —Newark Star Ledger
“Even in the face of huge events and special effects sequences, Benford manages to keep the characters and the human-scale issues important . . . It’s just this kind of juggling that characterizes the best of Benford’s work . . . Eater is Benford’s most Benfordesque book in quite a while.” —Locus
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Gregory Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to sciences. His research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. Dr. Benford makes his home in Laguna Beach, California.
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