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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf’s Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
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
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