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What Would an Alien Megastructure Look Like? Ringworlds with Larry Niven and Gregory Benford
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From both Gregory Benford and Larry Niven comes a thrilling, hard science fiction series, Bowl of Heaven, that follows a human expedition to another star system that’s suddenly interrupted by a gigantic artifact floating in interstellar space. The bowl-shaped structure engulfs an entire star, and has a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths.
Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and award winning author. Larry Niven is an award winning author, best known for his book Ringworld.
Link:
Bowl of Heaven (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3r5AWJO
Gravitational Wave Transmitter: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02334.pdf
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