Shipstar
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A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated, with one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants and the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape.
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2 primary books#2 in Bowl of Heaven
Bowl 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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This finishes the two-part story. (Read #1 first.)
Benford and Niven are champions at building humongously big alien structures. Unlike the Ringworld, which is a big dumb object, the Shipstar is a big smart object, with layers of intelligence. (You'll have to read it to find out what I mean by that.
