Book description
On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a
deadly hunt. Their prey is the Aleph-an unknowable alien artifact that
roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia. Indescribable,
infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men's dreams and destroys all
efforts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable planet. Now in a modern
world ancient struggle is joined, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks
enlightenment, and a society seeks the power to rule the universe. On
the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a hunt
for the Aleph-an alien artifact that ruled Ganymede for countless
millennia. Infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men's dreams and
destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into an habitable planet. Now
an ancient struggle is joined, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks
enlightenment, and a society seeks the power to rule the universe.
Gregory Benford (1941 - ) A leading writer of 'Hard SF', Gregory Albert
Benford was born in Alabama in 1941. He received a BSc in physics from
the University of Oklahoma, followed by an MSc and PhD from the
University of California, San Diego. His breakthrough novel, Timescape,
won both the Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, and he has
been nominated for the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula twelve times
in all categories. Benford has undertaken collaborations with David Brin
and Arthur C. Clarke among others and, as one of the 'Killer Bs' (with
Brin and Greg Bear) wrote one of three authorised sequels to Isaac
Asimov's Foundation series. He has also written for television and
served as a scientific consultant on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Gregory Benford lives in California, where he is currently Professor of
Plasma Physics and Astrophysics at the University of California, Irvine,
a position he has held since 1979.
