by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
“Bowl of Heaven . . . both the thrill-ride and head-scratching sides of its sub-tradition.” — Russell Letson, Locus Magazine.
“If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas—both physical and psychological—then you definitely want to read this book . . . ” Analog Magazine.
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it’s on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.
A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated — one group captured by the gigantic structures alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape — the mystery of the Bowl’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
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