Book description
The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of
uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two
scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel
faster than the speed of light and, therefore, according to the Theory
of Relativity, may move backwards in time. Their plan is to signal a
warning to the previous generation In 1962, a young Californian
scientist, Gordon Bernstein, finds his experiments are being spoiled by
unknown interference. As he begins to suspect something near the truth
it becomes a race against time - the world is collapsing and will only
be saved if Gordon can decipher the message in time. 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.
