Eater
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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner -- ex-astronaut-turned astronomer -- is dying.
But something looms alarmingly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered "Eater," an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devastating secrets are still to be revealed...and feared.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation’s Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape, and The Berlin Project. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apocalyptic yet hopeful. The world will end, but... There is a last-moment save, but the rest of the story makes you feel that it's not so much a salvation. Cleverness saves the day and opens new horizons. There are costs. Some aspects are predictable and help you hold on to the story line. The science is either right or predictive (for the publication date, my how we move on). As someone who straddles science and engineering, the characters are quite believable. Sure, some seem caricatures, but so do some of the physical people I know. And I've seen "character development" like this in real life under far less strenuous situations. This book brought me back to Sci-Fi after a long absence. I'm not claiming it's great and timeless literature, but it's a very good read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book had a little bit of the ole infodump with it but otherwise it was good. Intelligent blackhole threatens earth!