Eater

An intelligent blackhole having consumed tens of thousands of other civilizations now approaches Earth and Its Now Our Turn! One of the best end of the world premise by a suitablably weird monster. Greg Benford has truly excelled himself. This book deserves to be expanded into five times its size. The Eater's cool intellectual discourse with earth scientists are delicious to read, but THERE IS TOO LITTLE OF IT!! The writer missed a golden opportunity to wax lyrical about the alien wonders and horrors the Eater has seen (or consumed as dinner), or regaled the reader with even more of its ascerbic cosmic comments on human's insignificant place in the cosmos. Not since I read Contact (Carl Sagan), Eternity (Greg Bear) and Childhood's End (Arthur C Clarke) have I achieved as powerful an intellectual frisson and viscereal thrill from a sci-fi book. BUY IT NOW!!!There is now a worthy successor to Greg Bear and Arthur C Clarke! And its Greg Benford! Boy how I hope he writes longer works ....

I don't care what others say. I simply enjoyed this book. A real page turner. Don't miss this one!

A strange world-eating sentient alien is heading towards Earth. It's perfecting it's method of communication with mankind. It brings strange messages of destruction and hope. And it must be stopped though higher civilizations have failed. Eater provides a gripping story of a select group of individuals who take on a world-eating monster. Hard to put down.

Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time reading science fiction just for the pure joy of a good story. Bedford fixes this anxiety just fine by giving me a good entry course in plasma physics at the same time he feeds my story jones. Thanks!

I first started reading Benford in his collaboration with David Brin in Heart of the Comet. That book blew my mind.This one continued the process of my own mental big bang. Benford, a brilliant physicist, continues to excel at created new and realistic views of science. In Eater, he brings a brilliant view of allies and enemies, progressions in alien viewpoints and human perspectives.Keep up the great work, Gregory...oh, and while I'm at it....can I request a sequel to Heart of the Comet?