I should start off by saying I have a real soft spot for the Big Dumb Object section of the sci fi bookshelf. I’ve happily lost myself exploring the wonders found in Clarke’s “Rendezvous With Rama” and Bear’s “Eon,” where the dramatic tension is all “let’s see what’s around this next (really big)...
ABR's original The Martian Race audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.Nicholas Sansbury Smith continues his exciting series with this second book, Extinction Edge. At the close of Extinction Horizon, we are told there is a cure or rather that Dr. Lovato has created ...
This new, special edition of the classic concluding volume of this defining series by the eminent physicist and Nebula Award-winning author contains a teaser chapter from Benford's new hardcover, "The Sunborn."
'In a 3500-year-old Mycenaean Tomb, an artifact has been unearthed. An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, purpose and origins unknown.Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.It is an enigma with no equal in recorded his...
Dans la grande épopée galactique de Gregory Benford – Le Centre galactique – voici encore un tome qui nous rapproche de ce fameux centre. En effet, les profondeurs furieuses nous narrent, à travers les yeux de Toby, le fils de Killeen (si, si, Killeen, souvenez-vous, le héros de La grande rivière...
Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore o...
I just finished a re-read of GREAT SKY RIVER, the third book of Gregory Benford's GALACTIC CENTER novels. This is my favorite Benford series and my personal favorite of that series. I last read it when it was a new hardcover; now I am listening to it on an audiobook. The reader's performance is o...
(Si riferisce all'insieme dei romanzi: Nell'Oceano della Notte e Attraverso un Mare di Soli)Da:http://www.webalice.it/michele.castel...Un ritorno nel passato abbastanza remoto, per questo mese. Ma un ritorno che ha uno scopo anche didattico, come ormai mi succede spesso. Quello che voglio far ved...
I tried reading this book a few years ago and never got through it - decided to give it another go lately whilst waiting for some new books to arrive (and as part of an effort to get through that 'to-read' list). Got through it this time although I must admit it was a bit of an effort.On the whol...
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 alarningly on the far edge of the sola...
It was an anticlimactic return—Yuri hardly said anything. I told myself he felt embarrassed. I didn’t feel particularly comfortable with him, to say the least. I did a lot of hiking out to visit sensor packages, glad to be on my own. By sundown Wedn...
After the buoyant vault of space, these tunnels and cramped corridors weighed heavily on her, their air clotted and musky. Around her surged the endless parade of working podia, bound on their relentless missions, clattering and banging against one another in their haste. ...
She was distracted, plotting her next course and chewing sugary raisins. Her sled was coasting through a series of connected ellipses, bound for nearside. Earth was rising, a glinting crystal globe above the warped moon.There was a thump she felt more than heard. The horizon tilted crazily. She s...
Nikka se hallaba muy recuperada, y hacía labores diversas por la nave. Él participaba en seminarios y prestaba su ayuda con las actas de las asambleas, todo realizado en la pantalla plana del apartamento. Le gustaban el aislamiento y la paz, aunque, de hecho, se veía obligado a ello por la necesi...
He felt an echo of half-forgotten emotions as he watched the crowd waiting for the sleek liners, remembering the only other time he had been here; coming into Hiruko six years ago, with only a pack on his back, silent and intense, smoldering with anger and defiance. Then, the laser-polished stone...
The pilot had looped around to come in to San Diego from the ocean side. From this height most of the coastline north to Los Angeles was visible. That city was cloaked in its permanent haze; otherwise the day was clear and bright. The sun sparked flashes of brilliance from the windows of high-ris...
Voltaire got her calmed down just in time. He labored hard just to keep them both running. Dodging in and out of the 800 Sectors of Trantor, one step ahead of the Digital Bloodhounds, he needed more and more computing volume to run their defenses. She did not know that the Fog, as he had chosen t...