Eater - Brossura

Benford, Gregory

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0380790564 ISBN 13: 9780380790562

Casa editrice: Harper Voyager, 2001

Riassunto

Caring for his terminally ill ex-astronaut wife, Channing, while heading a research center, astrophysicist Benjamin Knowlton is among those who discover an intelligent black hole seeking to gather knowledge by consuming everything it encounters, including Earth. Reprint.

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L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner -- exastronaut-tuned-astronomer Channing -- is dying.But 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 potentially 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 devastating secrets are still to be revealed ... and feared: Eater is intelligent. And eager to communicate.Eater is curious . . . and hungry.Eater is rapidly heading our way . . .

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• Editore: Harper Voyager
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0380790564
• ISBN 13: 9780380790562
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400