Book description
The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child,
animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction.
Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission
- to throw an entire world into eternal chaos and madness. The Earth
Consortium could send only an embittered killer and an untrained
anthropologist to hunt down the Changeling. Yet, dangerous though it
was, the Changeling was not the only peril the Earthmen faced on Alvea,
or the worst - for the Alveans feared and hated Earth. Even a hint of
the hunter's identities would leave them dead and dismembered within
minutes 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.
