Glorious
By Gregory Benford & Larry Niven
- Release Date: 2020-06-16
- Genre: High Tech Sci-Fi
Description
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.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Reviews
Triumphant Close to the Bowl of Heaven Trilogy
5By Bufman11Gregory Benford and Larry Niven have delivered a crescendo close to their awe-inspiring Bowl of Heaven trilogy. Demonstrating how good science fiction is underwritten by good science, two of the genre’s most accomplished authors again show how to go big and convincing on ideas and tech while unleashing a galaxy’s worth of mind-bending aliens to engage with the saga’s intrepid human protagonists. For readers of the first two novels in the trilogy, Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar, the highly satisfying final act has arrived. For those who have enjoyed other works by Benford and Niven, or are new to their vast catalogs, a trilogy both grand in scale and intricate in detail awaits.Enjoyable but odd writing style
3By FastprofI really found this conclusion to the trilogy enjoyable. The mental imagery I could conjure up was spectacular. The final solution, though, was a bit rushed and could have used more development. A more serious criticism involved the writing style in parts, and I am not referring to the convolutions of Twisty-speak the main review mentions in the opening page of this web preview. The main characters speak in a convoluted style that sometimes is difficult to understand. Sometimes this leads to responses to something another character has said that make no sense, leaving the reader to wonder “…what the heck did that mean?…"
