Eater

"[D]espite a handful of...shaky compromises, EATER is probably the best of Benford's hard-SF thriller to date, its characters far more persuasive and interesting than those of COSM, its portrayal of a godlike alien by turns surrealistic and genuinely disturbing, its intellectual structure stimulating in the way genuine SF should always be, but too rarely is....[Benford] gives us an intellectual thriller with the real characters of the most "mainstream" work and the provocative ideas of his hardest SF. It's a mixture that works, if not quite seemlessly, in ways that are both very impressive and very satisfying."Benford, Gregory is the author of 'Eater' with ISBN 9780380790562 and ISBN 0380790564.