THE WATCHER
The crew standing near the Watcher’s entrance hole stopped speaking, forever. A millisecond-stepped scan of the video readback showed only a blue-white fog, and then—next frame—the beginnings of an orange explosion. In two more frames the boiling orange had reached the video lens itself and transmission stopped. The orange moved like a liquid, licking the surface of the satellite clean in seven milliseconds. A tongue of it projected eighteen klicks toward the orbiting mission team for twenty-two milliseconds. Then two-thirds of the crew—all that were on the satellite—were dead.
ACCLAIM FOR GREGORY BENFORD’S CLASSIC NOVELS OF THE GALACTIC CENTER
IN THE OCEAN OF NIGHT
“A major novel.”
—Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
“A brilliant book, a weathervane for the changing winds of science fiction.”
—Publishers Weekly
GREAT SKY RIVER
“A challenging, pace-setting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Overwhelming power … irresistible strength.”
—Washington Post Book World
ALSO BY GREGORY BENFORD
Fiction
The Martian Race
Eater
The Stars in Shroud
Jupiter Project
Shiva Descending (with William Rostler)
Heart of the Comet (with David Brin)
A Darker Geometry (with Mark O. Martin)
Beyond the Fall of Night (with Arthur C. Clarke)
Against Infinity
Cosm
Foundation’s Fear
Artifact
Timescape
The Galactic Center Series
In the Ocean of Night
Across the Sea of Suns
Great Sky River
Tides of Light
Furious Gulf
Sailing Bright Eternity
Non-fiction
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates
Across Millennia
To David Hartwell
