Shipstar - Hardcover

Benford, Gregory; Niven, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765328704 ISBN 13: 9780765328700

Publisher: Tor Books, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"The story is a solid adventure and entertaining speculation on the lives of alien creatures." "Booklist""

"The story is a solid adventure and entertaining speculation on the lives of alien creatures."--Booklist

About the Author:

GREGORY BENFORD is professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Irvine. Benford is a winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the Nebula Award for his classic novel Timescape.

LARRY NIVEN is the author of the Ringworld series and many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0765328704
• ISBN 13: 9780765328700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 415