Cosm - Gregory Benford

“Where have you been darling your late. I met a beautiful women in the mall and we had wild sex all afternoon dear”.”You liar, you’ve been in the lab all night again haven’t you”. This is very funny to the astro physicist’s apparently. And like the gag, they are probably the only ones that can understand what the hell is going on in this tecno thriller. My quantum physics isn’t what it should be and it’s clearly moved on since Benfords last book Timescape.. I bought this one on the back of that one which was the best time travelling sci-fi ever in my humble opinion. This time around though its more ...  Read the complete review

One of Gregory Benford's; not part of his spinal menacing- robot Galactic Centre cycle but, like Timescape (a novel whose date we have already passed, like so many, but which remains well worth reading), a novel of contemporary science coming across the extremely unusual. An experiment in a cyclotron- the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, which actually exists, apparently, and surely on those grounds the events of the novel constitute a giant lure set out to bait Fate?- goes drastically wrong. Or right, possibly; at any rate far more than was thought of. An experiment involving smashing uranium nuclei- the heaviest available, and the ecofreaks who hang around the ...  Read the complete review