Gregory Benford Knihy

Proti pádu noci se odehrává v daleké budoucnosti ve městě Diaspar, jehož prakticky nestárnoucí obyvatelé mají k dispozici všechny vymoženosti, které lidstvo za miliony let své existence vytvořilo. Přesto se neodvažují vyjít za hranice Diasparu a prozkoumat pustinu, v níž se obrátil zbytek celé planety, natož aby obrátili oči ke hvězdám. Až mladý Alvin se vydává na cestu do neznáma. Napínavý příběh ani za několik desetiletí v ničem nezastaral a dokazuje ohromnou míru autorova talentu. Profesor astrofyziky a poradce NASA Gregory Benford je rovněž úspěšným autorem sci-fi, dokonce držitelem ceny Nebula za román Timescape. Po dohovoru s Clarkem napsal pokračování původního příběhu pod názvem Po pádu noci, v němž představuje novou Zemi, která již není pustinou, ale oplývá ohromným bohatstvím. Přesto jí hrozí smrtelné nebezpečí. -- zdroj: legie.info --

Set in a declining Galactic Empire, the story follows Hari Seldon, who reluctantly becomes the First Minister, tasked with managing 25 million worlds from Trantor. Alongside his bio-engineered wife Dors and alien companion Yugo, Seldon continues his work on psychohistory, a science aimed at altering the course of history to prevent a looming Dark Age. As he navigates the challenges of power and fate, he faces an unprecedented threat that challenges his vision for the future.

A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape."

Across the Sea of Suns is a 1984 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford. It is the second novel in his Galactic Center Saga, and continues to follow the scientist Nigel Walmsley, who encountered a machine extraterrestrial in the previous book, In the Ocean of Night aboard an expeditionary spaceflight to find other life. Eventually Nigel discovers evidence of the major conflict in the galaxy.

On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt. Their prey is the Aleph - an unknowable, alien artifact that has roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia. Indescribable, infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men's dreams and destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable planet. Now in a modern world an ancient struggle begins, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks enlightenment, and a society seeks the power to rule the universe. In Gregory Benford's first novel since Timescape, men discover that the Aleph is their prey - and their destiny!

Set against the magnificent, furious backdrop of the Galactic Center, here is a drama as compelling as the towering Great Sky River. A small human band flees from a threat it cannot hope to match - enormously superior artificial minds embodied in great insectlike machines. This last remnant of humanity is led by Killeen, a man elevated to command in desperate times by his luck and daring. He manages to reach a new planet where he encounters vast wonders - a planet-coring cosmic string, an organic life-form the size of an entire world, another group of humans led by a strange messianic ruler - and even greater dangers from the most awesome beings they have yet to face. Their battle for survival reaches overwhelming dimensions. But they will gain an unexpected ally. And they will contribute shockingly to the new order of life that is developing around them.

Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven... Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

The final chapter of humanity's future has begun. And three men hold the key to survival. As the fierce, artificially intelligent mechs pursue their savage and unstoppable destruction of the human race, it soon becomes apparent that these three men - three generations in a family of voyagers - are their targets. Toby Bishop, his father, Killeen Bishop, and his long-dead grandfather each carry a piece of the lethal secret that can destroy their relentless pursuers. There's only one problem: they have no idea they possess the only weapon that can save humanity.

The greatest quest man will ever undertake . . . The original story from which If the Stars are Gods grew won the Nebula Award. Now the long-awaited magnificent full-length novel is complete. It tells the unforgettable story of the century-long search of a scientist-monk for the secret of alien intelligent life - a quest which leads him from the time-scoured deserts of Mars to the vast holes in the raging cloud-cover of Jupiter; from the radio winds of Titan to the true centre of a universe where Beings are collected like songs . . .