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Eater - First Edition - Gregory Benford - Avon Eos - Hardcover, Dust Jacket
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780380974368
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0380974363
ISBN-13
9780380974368
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1634868
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eater
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Science Fiction / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-057969
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
Few writers possess Gregory Benford's extraordinary array of talents. As a scientist, he is intimately involved in the latest advances in experimental and theoretical physics. His scientific work has earned him international honors, including election to the Royal Astronomical Society. Yet Benford is also an awardwinning novelist, remarkable for communicating cutting-edge science with crystal clarity in stories that probe the human heart as well as the farthest reaches of space and time. Now Benford brings us a near future in which humanity's vaunted intellect and technology, its courage and imagination, will be put to the ultimate test against a godlike being billions of years old. Dr. Benjamin Knowlton heads the High Energy Astrophysics (enter, a prestigious research facility devoted to the interpretation of astronomical data. He stands at the apex of his profession, respected by his peers and involved in research with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. But Benjamin has no cause to celebrate. His beloved wife and colleague, Charming, an ex-astronaut turned astronomer, is dying of cancer. She has only a few months to live. Then an anomalous signal from a remote probe alerts Benjamin to the presence of a wandering black hole beyond the orbit of Pluto. Though its trajectory will take it through the solar system, the singularity poses no threat to Earth-on the contrary, it may hold answers to the most fundamental questions of physics. But when an encoded message is received from the block hole, excitement turns to astonishment and apprehension. The thing is alive, intelligent, its mind residing in powerfully fluctuating fields of electromagnetic energies that radiate outward from its infinitely dense core. And it wants a (loser look at Earth...and its inhabitants. The entity -- dubbed the Eater for its habit of devouring everything in its path--proves eager to share its vast knowledge, accumulated in the course of explorations that began long before life arose on Earth. In exchange, it seeks to learn about human art, culture, and science. The world is charmed by the seemingly beneficent alien. Even Channing is infused with fresh strength and purpose. But gradually a terrifying truth about the singularity emerges -- a truth almost too awful to comprehend. Now, as the world waits, Channing volunteers to undertake a desperate gamble: a one-to-one confrontation with the Eater. Astrophysicist Benjamin Knowlton heads up a large research center while caring for his terminally ill ex-astronaut wife, Channing. He and his team discover a black hole moving quickly through space, devouring everything in its path, and name it, the "Eater." There's no danger -- its orbit will miss Earth with room to spare. Then the Eater speaks. It is a life form, an intelligence built into an astrophysical field. It seems benign enough: interested in human art, culture, and intelligence, and eager to share its vast knowledge of many previously unknown alien cultures. But gradually, humans discover the terrifying truth: the Eater is lonely for companionship on its interstellar journeys, and plans to "upload" the personalities of Earth -- by destroying the planet and their physical beings. Channing volunteers to sacrifice the little time she has left for a magnetic immortality, to become part of the creature and, perhaps, defeat it.Astrophysicist Benjamin Knowlton heads up a large research center while caring for his terminally ill ex-astronaut wife, Channing. He and his team discover a black hole moving quickly through space, devouring everything in its path, and name it, the "Eater." There's no danger---its orbit will miss Earth with room to spare. Then the Eater speaks. It is a life form, an intelligence built into an astrophysical field. It seems benign enough: interested in human art, culture, and intelligence, and eager to share its vast knowledge of many previously unknown alien cultures. But
LC Classification Number
PS3552.E542E18 2000
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