2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A re
Galactic Center #01 - In the Ocean of Night
β Scribed by Benford, Gregory
- Book ID
- 107183350
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Series
- Galactic Center 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. The ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life... to annihilate it.
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SUMMARY: A classic novel of man's future and fate, and of one man's encounter with the greatest mystery from outer space that humanity has ever encountered, by eminent American physicist award-winning novelist Gregory Benford, author of "Timescape.
2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A re