Bowl Of Heaven And Shipstar

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988223

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Bowl of Heaven by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429949682

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Shipstar by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of Heaven Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250756466

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Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling intersteller odyssey in the not-too-distant future. “If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas—both physical and psychological—then you definitely want to read this book.” —Analog on the New York Times bestseller Bowl of Heaven A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765392428

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Glorious by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534443631

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Shadows of Eternity by Gregory Benford Pdf

"Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding nearly gets killed doing it"--

Author : Larry Niven,Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671741921

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The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven,Jerry Pournelle Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061793608

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Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford Pdf

The classic sci-fi saga continues in this “intriguing and engrossing” first installment of a new trilogy that “extends and embellishes Asimov’s vision” (Kirkus). Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission—and blessing—of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues. Fate—and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power—have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will. As the story opens, Hari is about to leave his quiet professorship and take on the nearly impossible task of administering 25 million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. With the help of his beautiful bio-engineered "wife" Dors and his alien companion Yugo, Seldon is still developing the science that will transform history, never dreaming that it will ultimately pit him against future history's most awesome threat.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345336968

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A World Out of Time by Larry Niven Pdf

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!

Author : Muhammad M. Al-Akili
Publisher : Pearl Publishing House (PA)
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000029834474

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Ibn Seerïn's Dictionary of Dreams According to Islãmic Inner Traditions by Muhammad M. Al-Akili Pdf

Author : Hannu Rajaniemi
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250301031

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The Jean le Flambeur Trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi Pdf

This discounted ebundle of the Jean le Flambeur Trilogy includes: The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince, The Causal Angel “The next big thing in hard SF. Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am.” —Charles Stross The gentleman rogue Jean de Flambeur is part mind burglar, part confidence artist. He’s known throughout the Heterarchy for his amazing galactic exploits, like breaking into the vast Inner System of Zuesbrains. The Quantum Thief Jean Le Flambeur’s trapped inside the Dilemma Prison, and must wake up every morning to kill himself before his other self can kill him. Filled with mind-bending science, plus mediations on the nature of reality, these interstellar capers are reminiscent of Maurice Leblanc and the science fictional greats. The Fractal Prince A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. The Causal Angel Discover the ultimate fates of Jean de Flambeur, his employer Miele, the independently minded ship Perhonnen, and the rest of a fractured and diverse humanity flung throughout the solar system in this stunning conclusion. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1596066865

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The Best of Gregory Benford by Gregory Benford Pdf

This is a monumental collection of thirty-eight Gregory Benford stories, including some of the best science fiction of the last fifty years, chosen from more than two hundred he has published to date.

Author : Larry Niven,Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429933452

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Inferno by Larry Niven,Jerry Pournelle Pdf

Acclaimed writing pair Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle offer a new twist on Dante's classic tale, Inferno. After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin—recast for the present day. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Larry Niven,Brenda Cooper
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429914093

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Building Harlequin's Moon by Larry Niven,Brenda Cooper Pdf

The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild their store of antimatter by terraforming the moon. Gabriel, the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task, with all the wrong materials: the wrong ships and tools, and too few resources. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly-illiterate children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin's moon into an antimatter factory. Rachel Vanowen is one of these children. Basically a slave girl, she must do whatever the terraforming Council tells her. She knows that Council monitors her actions from a circling vessel above Selene's atmosphere, and is responsible for everything Rachel and her people know, as well as all the skills, food, and knowledge they have ever received. With no concept of the future and a life defined with duty, how will the children of Selene ever survive once the Council is through terraforming and have abandoned Selene for its ultimate goal of Ymir? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Hannu Rajaniemi
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429986632

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The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi Pdf

"The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of "fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he's running out of time. In Hannu Rajaniemi's sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe...and we discover what the future held for Earth. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446567503

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Great Sky River by Gregory Benford Pdf

The third novel in the award-winning author's classic Galactic Center series is available once again. "A challenging, pacesetting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed" (Los Angeles Times). Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, people like Killeen of Family Bishop and his child Toby are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity-neither organic nor cybernetic nor living matter-reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen. But can this fallen descendant of starfarers understand this alien being in time-and seize his only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?