Book description
Messages from a far distant sun are received on Earth, causing chaos.
Who is sending them, and why are they in English? A ship is sent on a
twelve year journey to find the answers, and in the process they find a
secret so deadly it threatens all organic life everywhere...
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.
