Bowl of Heaven Series

Embark on an epic hard science fiction journey where humanity encounters a monumental alien structure in the vastness of space. This colossal, bowl-shaped vessel engulfs an entire star, revealing a habitable expanse millions of times larger than Earth. A human expedition's course is abruptly altered as this incomprehensible artifact speeds towards their intended colonization system.

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Bowl of Heaven
Gregory Benford
448 pages
16 hours of reading
In Bowl of Heaven , the first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ( Ringworld ) and Gregory Benford ( Timescape ), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowlshaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
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Larry Niven
KontaktaufnahmeDie SunSeeker befindet sich auf der größten Mission in der Geschichte der Menschheit: Erstmals verlässt ein Expeditionsteam unser Sonnensystem, um die Weiten des Universums zu erforschen. Doch auf dem Weg zu den Sternen stößt die Besatzung der SunSeeker auf einen künstlichen Stern, der um ein Vielfaches größer als die Erde ist – und außerdem bewohnt! Das Team macht sich auf, das gigantische Objekt zu erkunden, und stößt dabei auf Geheimnisse, die die Rolle der Menschheit im Universum grundlegend infrage stellen.
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