Shadows of Eternity
eBook - ePub

Shadows of Eternity

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Shadows of Eternity

About this book

"A fascinating plunge into a new world. I loved the idea of the SETI Library on the moon. Chasing wormholes is also a wild ride!" —Jack McDevitt, bestselling author of Octavia Gone Shadows of Eternity is legendary author Gregory Benford's return to interstellar science fiction as a discovery within the SETI library on the moon turns out to be deadly. Shadows of Eternity is a novel set two centuries from now. 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.Gregory Benford is one of science fiction's iconic writers, having been nominated for four Hugo Awards and twelve Nebula Awards. Shadows of Eternity marks Gregory Benford's return to the sweeping galactic science fiction that readers have been waiting for.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Part 1: The Prefect
  5. Part 2: The Hydrogen Wall
  6. Part 3: The Milky Way’s Library
  7. Part 4: Food to the Soul
  8. Part 5: Ythri
  9. Part 6: Shadows of Eternity
  10. Part 7: Bloodpride
  11. Part 8: Orbitfall
  12. Part 9: Ascending Everest
  13. Part 10: Black Smoker
  14. Part 11: The Lathe of Evolution
  15. Part 12: The Grace of Tragedy
  16. Part 13: A Worm in the Well
  17. Part 14: The Worm Turns
  18. Fraq
  19. Rachel
  20. Afterword
  21. About the Author
  22. Copyright