A scientist facing personal tragedy discovers a sentient black hole targeting humanity in this hard sci-fi thriller from тАЬa superb storytellerтАЭ (Houston Post).
Dr. Benjamin KnowltonтАЩs private world is crumbling around him. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist learns that his beloved wife and partner, ChanningтАФan ex-astronaut-turned astronomerтАФis 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 KnowltonsтАЩ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered тАЬEater,тАЭ an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed┬а.┬а.┬а. and feared.
тАЬA celestial horror tale, a cosmological adventure, a literate end-of-the-world epic, and a story bursting with old-fashioned тАШsense of wonder.тАЩтАЭ тАФOrlando Sentinel
тАЬBenford spins poetry from textbook phenomena . . . [His] novel proves that scientific wisdom involves the heart and soul as well as the mind.тАЭ тАФThe Washington Post Book World
тАЬThe scientific equivalent of a taut police procedural . . . BenfordтАЩs deft, suspenseful weaving of the struggle between Eater and humanity blends two threads with maximal impact.тАЭ тАФNewark Star Ledger
тАЬEven in the face of huge events and special effects sequences, Benford manages to keep the characters and the human-scale issues important . . . ItтАЩs just this kind of juggling that characterizes the best of BenfordтАЩs work . . . Eater is BenfordтАЩs most Benfordesque book in quite a while.тАЭ тАФLocus
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