Eater
by Gregory Benford
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Author: Gregory BenfordEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN: 0380790564
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Harper Voyager
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Book Review: A Sci-Fi Story Especially Good for (Would-Be) Scientists
Summary: 4 Stars
Gregory Benford, a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, provides an educational, rather than entertaining, sci-fi story. Actually, he writes in the afterword of this book, "I have endeavored to show . . . how scientists do think, work, and confront the unknown." The present reviewer is a physicist. So he enjoyed how the physicist-writer well expresses scientists' thinking, working, and loving. However, the reader who is a sci-fi aficionado but a layperson of science might find the long descriptions of scientific discussion by the characters a little tedious or difficult to understand. The author also gives satirical descriptions of politics and politicians. Educational and satirical descriptions are elements not of sci-fi but of purely literary novels. Thus the author seems to be writing for a genre partly unsuitable for his talent.The story begins when Benjamin Knowlton and his wife Channing, both working at an astronomical center in Hawaii, find a strange interstellar object. It is identified to be a black hole approaching Earth, and the name "Eater" proposed by Channing is adopted. The British astronomer Kingsley Dart joins the center. Channing, formerly a brilliant astronaut and now having a heavy cancer, and Kingsley feel an attractive force between themselves. The Eater has intelligence stored in its magnetic field, and sends messages to Earth, demanding its "remnants." Channing makes up her mind to . . . You will like this book very much, if you are a romantic scientist or hope to be one.
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