Book description
Regein was the first human colony struck by the Quarn - aliens never
seen by man, yet who sow a strange death through man's crumbling empire.
In humanity's wreckage, Ling Sanjen, a rare half-breed Caucasian, sets
forth to find what - and who - has broken the spirit of mankind
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.
