"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.