num_pages: 450
description: Contains Introduction EssayCover Artist: Don Dixon2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: Then a reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the existence of a sentient ship. When the new vessel begins to communicate directly with him, the astronaut learns of the horrors that await humanity. For the ship was created by an alien race that has spent billions and billions of years searching for intelligent life...to annihilate it.In the Ocean of Night is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford. It is the first novel in his Galactic Center Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1977. It was first published as a novelette in the May/June 1972 edition of Worlds of If Science Fiction.
language: English
title: In the Ocean of Night
titlecomplete: In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center, #1)
characters: Nigel Walmsley
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3507
series: Galactic Center
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Aspect