Book description
Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of Man.
The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different
chambers to be breached, some even containing deserted cities. The
furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the
Stone's scientists. But tombstone or milestone, the Stone is not an
alien structure: it comes from the future of our humanity. And the war
that breaks out on Earth seems to bear witness to the Stone's prowess as
oracle . . . Greg Bear (1951 - ) Gregory Dale Bear was born in San
Francisco in 1951 and is regarded as one of the world's leading hard SF
authors. He sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert
Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction, and began to write full time in 1975,
since which time he has produced a body of work of huge significance and
influence to the science fiction canon. He is the winner of 5 Nebulas
and 2 Hugos, amongst many other awards, and is regarded as one of the
natural successors to Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C. Clarke. A full-time
writer, he lives in Washington State with his family. He is married to
Astrid Anderson Bear, daughter of award-winning SF writer, the late Poul
Anderson.
