Written by Larry Niven, Gregory Benford
Read by Zach Villa
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Author: Larry Niven, Gregory Benford
Narrator: Zach Villa
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 12 hours and 59 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Audible Frontiers
Audible.com Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B009RFFJW8
Average Customer Review: 3

a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.

A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated - one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape - the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.

Reviews of this book are mixed however, I liked it. If you like these authors or hard Sifi fiction-adventure you will like this book. It's fast paced and exciting but not deep into character development nor twisting plots. An entertaining tale that I give a 3 of 5.