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Few authors have successful combined hard science and speculation with completely realized people as Gregory Benford has in his critically acclaimed novels. Now he attracts us into a vortex of puzzle and danger at the heart of the galaxy in his stunning epic play, Furious Gulf.Filled with the remnants of humanity from the earth Snowglade, the spaceship Argo hurtles toward its uncertain future, the strong and great Captain Killeen at its helm. But he has grown progressively isolated and anguished in command line. The ship's backyards are declining, its voyagers face hunger, and there are dark whispers within, talk of mutiny. Killeen's will, however, remains as strong as ever before, his determination to reach the True Middle of the galaxy bordering on obsession.Amid a mad swirl of incandescent suns and ghostly blue clouds of galactic dirt, beset by hostile worlds manipulated by the mechs - a huge and violent unnatural intellect whose only so this means, only mission, is the entire extermination of the people - Killeen pursues his anxious search, persuaded his people's one expectation of survival lies in the True Middle. The crew has followed him this considerably on trust, a trust now being analyzed to the limit. Even his own son Toby, groomed for command, is beginning to question his father's command line.As the Argo undertakes a perilous quest into the mysterious, Toby encounters his own trip in to the mysteries of adulthood. Just like the others in this Category of voyagers, Toby's back has microchip implants having the recollections - the legacy - of his competition. And the technology made to save his people may rip Toby himself aside, so his father's anxious gamble to save lots of the Argo may plunge the ship and its inhabitants into a cosmic pit of all-consuming flames. In this extraordinary novel, part of an interconnected group of novels that commenced with In the Sea of Evening and persisted in Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, and Tides of Light, Gregory Benford explores the fundamental nature of individual development and finding. Across the gulf that extends between fear and faith, history and future, we watch in question as an age-old question goes on...the quest for the fulfillment of an individual, for the development of a species, for the immortality of the heart and soul.
