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Overview: Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. In the Ocean of Night: It is 2019. NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy it, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe – a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal.In 2034, a reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal, which comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. For the ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life… to annihilate it.
2. Across the Sea of Suns: It is 2076: Lancer, Earth’s first starship, is on a mission to find interstellar civilizations. Although astronaut Nigel Walmsley’s experiences with alien encounters make him the expert, no one believes Nigel’s theory that machines are the dominant intelligent beings left in the galaxy and that their purpose is to annihilate all organic life.Then the explorers discover once-living planets where only machines remain – and ruined worlds where fugitive survivors must evade omnipresent and lethally advanced A.I. warships. By the time the crew of Lancer realizes that Nigel is right, it will be too late – for the machines have already found Lancer…and Earth..
3. Great Sky River: Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child, Toby, of the Bishop Trib,e are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs". Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity – neither organic nor cybernetic or living matter – reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen. But can the fallen descendent of starfarers understand this being in time – and seize his only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?
4. Tides of Light: Onboard an ancient starship, Killeen and the Bishop tribe escape the mech-ruled world of Snowglade. Seeking refuge on a faraway planet, they discover vast wonders: an organic life-form as large as a world, a planet-coring cosmic string, a community of humans ruled by a brutal tyrant, and ultimately an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. As they battle for survival against these myriad dangers, Killeen and his crew will gain an unforeseen ally – one that may determine humanity’s true destiny.
5. Furious Gulf: Benford’s eagerly-awaited new "Galactic Center" novel, set in the same universe as the bestselling Tides of Light. Containing the remnants of humanity from the planet Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward an uncertain destiny–with whispers of mutiny aboard, as the captain’s obsession to reach the center of the galaxy grows stronger.
6. Sailing Bright Eternity: The final chapter of humanity’s future is at hand and the sole survivor is Nigel Walmsley, an ancient scientist from the distant past marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. The Old Ones guard the center of the galaxy–a black hole called the Eater of All Things. Now, the survivors must take a final stand against their executioners or perish.
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