SHIPSTAR
Book ID/图书代码： 13005514B67795
English Summary/英文概要： Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.
Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科幻大师拉里•尼文与格里高利•本福德将继续惊险的冒险之旅，有关于一名人类前往其他星系，却因为遇到了无数惊人的星际人工智能而遭遇危险：一个碗状的结构托起了一颗恒星，其环境适于居住，极其类似于地球。然而令人忧心的是，它前进的方向与人类即将前往殖民的地点是同一条道路。
为了调查这个巨碗，或者说这艘星船，人类探索者们被迫分开---一只小队被生活在这艘庞然大物中的外星居民们所俘获，另一只小队则在种种奇怪与危险的环境中逃亡---这艘星船的起源和目的的神秘之处驱使着人类旅行者们不断寻找与发现，最终的结果将改变他们对自身在宇宙中地位的认识与理解。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 格里高利•本福德，顶尖畅销小说家，其作品包括《木星项目》《人造品》《超越极限》《贪食者》《时间柱》，他的科学家精神与艺术家才华创造性的结合在了一起；他的故事借助跳跃的想象力进入未来的科学和人类世界，极大的吸引着读者们的身心。
本福德自1971年来便是加利福尼亚大学的一名教职人员，他曾对等离子体湍流理论展开调查研究及实验，并对天体物理学进行了一定的研究。他出版的科学文献包括100余篇物理学领域的文章，从凝聚体、分子物理、等离子物理、数学物理到到数篇生物领域对话文献。
本福德的故事常常被人们称为硬科幻小说，他的小说作品将物理知识带入到极具创造力的领域之中。如果人体冷冻法能够实现，而被冷冻的人们能够在50年后的未来被重新唤醒，一切又将如何变化？在其他的维度中，我们又将遭遇什么？如何超越时间，传递信息？在我们当中找寻外星人？那些物理学家和科学家们提出的问题，本福德也会用他自己的想象力进行探究。
本福德前期作品的重新发行及新作的问世，都无疑将引领创作科幻小说的潮流，不仅会令我们困惑，也会令我们欢快不已，最重要的是，同时它们还将敦促我们对其进行深入的思考。
Gregory Benford, author of top-selling novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape, is that unusual creative combination of scientist scholar and talented artist; his stories capture readers - hearts and minds - with imaginative leaps into the future of science and of us.
A University of California faculty member since 1971, Benford has conducted research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. His published scientific articles include well over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.
Often called hard science fiction, Benford’s stories take physics into inspired realms. What would happen if cryonics worked and people, frozen, were awoken 50 years in the future? What might we encounter in other dimensions? How about sending messages across time? And finding aliens in our midst? The questions that physics and scientists ask, Benford’s imagination explores.
With the re-release of some of his earlier works and the new release of current stories and novels, Benford takes the lead in creating science fiction that intrigues and amuses us while also pushing us to think.
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