About the Book
Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. 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.
Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.
About the Author :
Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces and fantasy, including the Magic Goes Away series. His Beowulf's Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California. Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet, Foundation's Fear, Bowl of Heaven, Timescape, and The Berlin Project. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation. James R. Cheatham is a multi-award-winning, professionally trained audiobook narrator. During his service in the US military-both US Navy and US Army-he visited over seventeen different countries and developed a deep respect and fascination for the cultures, ethnicities, accents, and personalities. Having been actively deployed to war zones four different times, his approach to military and special ops fiction has a depth and detail that is clear and concise. Now a part of the civilian world once again, James has embraced his true calling in life-acting. Since childhood, James has enjoyed playing every role with his background in theater, therefore making audiobooks a natural fit. As an avid player of role playing games for over twenty years, such as D&D and Pathfinder, James brings an air of authenticity when casting a sci-fi LitRPG or Dungeon Core book. James has recorded for Tantor and Blackstone, as well as The AudioFlow. When not in the booth, he feeds his creativity baking yummy treats in the kitchen, painting miniatures, and being a dungeon master for tabletop RPGs. James R. Cheatham is a multi-award-winning, professionally trained audiobook narrator. During his service in the US military-both US Navy and US Army-he visited over seventeen different countries and developed a deep respect and fascination for the cultures, ethnicities, accents, and personalities. Having been actively deployed to war zones four different times, his approach to military and special ops fiction has a depth and detail that is clear and concise. Now a part of the civilian world once again, James has embraced his true calling in life-acting. Since childhood, James has enjoyed playing every role with his background in theater, therefore making audiobooks a natural fit. As an avid player of role playing games for over twenty years, such as D&D and Pathfinder, James brings an air of authenticity when casting a sci-fi LitRPG or Dungeon Core book. James has recorded for Tantor and Blackstone, as well as The AudioFlow. When not in the booth, he feeds his creativity baking yummy treats in the kitchen, painting miniatures, and being a dungeon master for tabletop RPGs.
