Cincuenta años después de los hechos narrados en EL OCÉANO DE LA NOCHE, Nigel Walmsley forma parte de la tripulación del Lancer , primer navío interestelar de la humanidad. Su experiencia y conocimientos le permiten una intervención destacada en el contacto con nuevas especies extraterrestres y en el descubrimiento de un terrible secreto que amenaza la Tierra y toda la vida de origen orgánico de la galaxia. Benford, conocido científico y reputado escritor, nos ofrece una compleja y sugerente visión de la vida en el espacio profundo y una inteligente reflexión sobre la dificultad de comunicación entre las diversas especies galácticas. Una interesante especulación sobre lo que nos espera en el espacio. Esta ambiciosa novela forma parte de una de las más importantes series de la moderna ciencia ficción.

Benford, Gregory. Across the Sea of Suns. 1984. Galactic Center No. 2. Aspect, 2004.
In Across the Sea of Suns, the second novel of the Gregory Benford’s Galactic Center series, we have a two-ring circus, a near-lightspeed interstellar exploration mission and an alien invasion in Earth’s oceans. The space mission provides Benford’s answer to Fermi’s paradox that the universe should be teaming with intelligent life, yet alien civilizations are hard to find. It turns out that the oldest civilizations are machines that stomp on emerging space-faring cultures as soon as they detect radio signals. Meanwhile Earth’s oceans have been seeded with genetically modified creatures designed to destroy the biome. Under pressure human governments go to war with one another. The oceanic theater gives Benford the opportunity to tell a very tense castaway survival story. This is hard science fiction that rivals the work of Arthur C. Clarke and arguably has better character development. ( )

Seguito diretto de *nell'oceano della notte* ne ricalca in toto lo stile ed il modus essendi. Il focus della storia si sposta dalla terra alla spazio, una gigantesca nave spaziale in missione in altri sistemi solari alla ricerca di spiegazioni per i misteriosi fenomeni accaduti alla Terra.
Queste vicende sono intervallate con il racconto delle avventure di un naufrago nel Pacifico alla prese con i misteriosi e pericolosi pesci alieni comparsi da alcuni anni negli oceani terrestri e parte dei motivi per cui è partita la missione.
Questo romanzo è forse un pochino migliore, più avventuroso, del precedente ma purtroppo anch'esso tristemente infarcito della solita quantità riflessioni, speculazioni, descrizioni di stati d'animo e sentimenti, rapporti interpersonali, digressioni pseudo-religiose, deliranti immaginazioni, ecc... come detto per il precedente. ( )

The story sounded like it might have been interesting, if I could have understood what the hell was going on through the book. I could not get into the writing style at all, it was confusing half the time (or most the time), and I didn't much care for the characters either. ( )

I found half of this book to be a splendid read! The sections about life in the Earth's oceans after being invaded by aliens... top notch Science fiction. Unfortunately, I found the other half to be unreadable. I had hopes of getting into this series as I am a fan of hard sf but I really hate the main character and found the writing style awful. ( )