ABOUT THE BOOK  

Written by highly-acclaimed, multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford (TIMESCAPE) and Larry Niven (RINGWORLD), GLORIOUS concludes the BOWL OF HEAVEN series praised by Booklist as "a solid adventure and entertaining speculation on the lives of alien creatures."

In the journey that began with the New York Times bestseller, BOWL OF HEAVEN and its sequel, SHIPSTAR, audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien built labyrinths. The alien civilization is far more advanced than our own, and difficult for our astronauts to comprehend. The astronauts must explore and document this brave, new, highly dangerous world, while also dealing with their own personal triumphs and conflicts--their loves and jealousies, joys and disappointments.

Gregory Benford is a recipient of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the author of more than twenty novels, including the Nebula Award-winning TIMESCAPE. He is an astrophysicist and plasma physicist at the University of California.

Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the RINGWORLD series, along with many other SFF masterpieces. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors.