Galactic Center In the Ocean of Night, (Paperback)

from ikeman100

I believe this is my first Benford novel. I have be surveying the Golden age of SF (50-60s) and decided to jump ahead 10 years and try out a different author. Perhaps I picked the wrong Benford book. It won an award so it should have been a safe bet. This author can certainly write and has an int...

from ChrisRiesbeck

Disjointed and surprisingly uninvolving. Critically well received in 1978, this book would seem to have all the components for a great SF novel: space travel by an author who knows his science, first contact, cosmic implications, not at all pulpy, serious attempt at the personal side of things. A...

from Amtep

A few interesting tidbits buried under mountains of characterization. Story doesn't go anywhere.

from DavidLErickson

The novel opens with Astronaut Nigel Walmsley landing on a comet headed for a collision with Earth is a huge derelict spaceship. His decision to delay detonating a device to divert the ship's course as he investigates does not sit well with the public. Years later as the New Sons religious organi...