Skip to content

Across the Sea of Suns

Pages
399
Published
1984
Language
English

Synopsis

A crew of scientists aboard a Bussard ramjet ship travels to the nearby star system Ross 128 to investigate a mysterious alien signal and the strange, destructive Swarmers and Skimmers that have begun appearing in Earth's oceans. What begins as a scientific mission unravels into a desperate race to understand the true nature of the threat lurking in the void.

About the author

G
Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine. Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of...

Characters

Nigel WalmsleyProtagonist
The SwarmersAntagonist
All characters in Across the Sea of Suns