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Few writers possess Gregory Benford's extraordinary array of talents. As a scientist, he is intimately involved in the latest advances in experimentál and theoretical physics. His scientific work has earned him international honors, induding election to the Royal Astronomical Society. Yet Benford is alsó an awardwinning novelist, remarkable for communicating cutting-edge science with crystal clarity in stories that probe the humán heart as well as the farthest reaches of space and time. Now Benford brings us a near future in which humanity's vaunted intellect and technology, its courage and imagination, will be put to the ultimate test against a godlike being billions of years old. Dr. Benjámin Knowlton heads the High Energy Astrophysics Center, a prestigious research facility devoted to the interpretation of astronomical data. He stands at the apex of his profession, respected by his peers and involved in research with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the... Tovább

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Few writers possess Gregory Benford's extraordinary array of talents. As a scientist, he is intimately involved in the latest advances in experimentál and theoretical physics. His scientific work has earned him international honors, induding election to the Royal Astronomical Society. Yet Benford is alsó an awardwinning novelist, remarkable for communicating cutting-edge science with crystal clarity in stories that probe the humán heart as well as the farthest reaches of space and time. Now Benford brings us a near future in which humanity's vaunted intellect and technology, its courage and imagination, will be put to the ultimate test against a godlike being billions of years old. Dr. Benjámin Knowlton heads the High Energy Astrophysics Center, a prestigious research facility devoted to the interpretation of astronomical data. He stands at the apex of his profession, respected by his peers and involved in research with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. But Benjámin has no cause to celebrate. His beloved wife and colleague, Channing, an ex-astronaut turnéd astronomer, is dying of cancer. She has only a few months to live. Then an anomalous signal from a remote probe alerts Benjámin to the presence of a wandering black hole beyond the orbit of Pluto. Though its trajectory will take it through the solar system, the singularity poses no threat to Earth-on the contrary, it may hold answers to the most fundamental questions of physics. But when an encoded message is received from the black hole, excitement turns to astonishment and apprehension. The thing is alive, intelligent, its mind residing in powerfully fluctuating fields of electromagnetic energies that radiate outward from its infinitely dense core. And it wants a doser look at Earth.. .and its inhabitants. Vissza