Bowl of Heaven (45 page)

GREGORY BENFORD
is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Irvine, California. Benford is the winner of the Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his classic novel
Timescape
.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

BOWL OF HEAVEN

Copyright © 2012 by Gregory Benford

All rights reserved.

Interior art by Don Davis

Original cover image by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STSc I/AURA)

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

   Benford, Gregory, 1941–

Bowl of heaven / Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.—1st ed.

      p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-2841-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4299-8822-3 (e-book)

I.  Niven, Larry.   II.  Title.

PS3552.E542B69 2012

813'.54—dc23

2012019942

   e-ISBN 9781429988223

First Edition: October 2012