Book description
An alien craft appears, exploring the universe, approaching Earth. It
is not the first. Nigel Walmsley is ordered to destroy it. But he
believes it could hold knowledge that could save a world in which
pollution and deprivation rule. Belief becomes obsession as he risks all
to stop the ship becoming yet another victim of the authorities'
ignorant dread 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.
