6/27/2023 0 Comments Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford![]() FYI:Benford, a physicist, has won two Nebula Awards and a John W. With its thoughtful extrapolation and mind-bending physics, this book reinforces Benford's position as one of today's foremost writers of hard SF. Cley won't be safe until she solves the secret of the Malign a secret whose truth lies far back in the past, when the human race first set out to explore the galaxy. Her journey quickly takes on an Alice-in-Wonderland quality, as she and Seeker traverse bewildering multidimensional spaces and encounter the immense Leviathan, a living ship that roams the solar system. ![]() Aided by the raccoon-like alien Seeker-After-Patterns, which seems to have a parallel agenda all its own, Cley flees Supra captivity and Earth. Cley knows, though, the Supras aren't telling her the whole story. Read 25 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When a vicious attack by transdimensional life forms leaves Cley the last Original alive, the Supras blame an extradimensional race known as the Malign. But there are mysterious forces afoot among the planets that she never foresaw. ![]() So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast wise beyond recognition. ![]() ![]() Though the genetically reengineered Supras regard her as limited in intelligence, Cley's precocious nature lands her a job helping to recover scientific and historical data from the immense caches called the Library of Life. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. Young Cley is an Original, a genetically pure example of the oldest species of humans on Earth. Expanded from his 1990 novella, "Beyond the Fall of Night," this dense, lively, far-future SF novel from Benford (The Martian Race) sweeps readers away in a taut adventure that examines humanity's role in steering the fate of the universe. ![]()
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