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A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
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2 primary booksBowl of Heaven is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.
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updated version of Ringworld, but not as good. Hopefully the second book is better.
This was very slow and I wasn't interested in the presentations about the alien culture.Two different groups of humans are wandering about the gigantic structure and it was a bit tediouskeeping track of their travels. Once they got to the Bowl, the human starship seemed mostly irrelevant. Benford and Niven are good writers but I would recommend [b:Ringworld 61179 Ringworld Larry Niven https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1408793358s/61179.jpg 924711] over this.
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