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Against Infinity
On the poisonous, icy surface of Ganymede, a man and a boy are on a deadly hunt. Their prey is the Aleph - an unknowable, alien artifact that has roamed and ruled Ganymede for countless millennia. Indescribable, infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men's dreams and destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable planet. Now in a modern world an ancient strugg...more
Mass Market Paperback, 251 pages
Published
April 1983
by Pocket Books
(first published 1983)
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I found this book completely by chance, and I don't regret taking it home with me in any way at all. Essentially, it's a story about a boy growing into a man who has spent his entire life outside of his ancestors' native planet, in Ganymede (the Solar System's biggest moon)and so sees "Earthers" as a completely different type of species.
I particularly enjoyed reading Part I of the story because it was written in an unbelievably accurate, convincing way; every little detail of how it felt like...more
I particularly enjoyed reading Part I of the story because it was written in an unbelievably accurate, convincing way; every little detail of how it felt like...more
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A very dark book... there are no glorious victories.. just grief. Yet I realized that it's poor lighting and gloomy outlook played well into the theme, which took me a while to get after I finished, but then made good sense!
The style that Benford uses in his story is distracting from the story itself. The prose has a way of slowing the story down to a grinding halt at times.
The other problem is basically a lack of clarity regarding characters, goals, and setting. Who are these people? What are they doing? Why are they on Ganymede? Why am I even still reading this book?
I really like some of Benford's later books. Galactic Center #3 seems to borrow some of the themes from this book here, though Benford's skill of cr...more
The other problem is basically a lack of clarity regarding characters, goals, and setting. Who are these people? What are they doing? Why are they on Ganymede? Why am I even still reading this book?
I really like some of Benford's later books. Galactic Center #3 seems to borrow some of the themes from this book here, though Benford's skill of cr...more
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Jan 14, 2013
Bill Williams
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One of my all time favorites. The continuation of Faulkner's The Bear into the far future cements the fact that all historians know, History WILL repeat at some point.
Mar 31, 2013
Kerri-ann
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Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare wit...more
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As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare wit...more
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