What if the foremost scientist in the field of nanotechnology and microrobotics used his inventions to take our world leaders hostage and enact his own political agenda? Dr. J. Maurice Carpenter has worked for decades at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a top-secret government project to develop a terrifying new breed of weaponry. Launching an attempt to take over the world, Carpenter commences his plans by implanting a microscopic robot in the body of the President of the United Stat...

The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of HeavenScience fiction masters Larry Niven ( Ringworld) and Gregory Benford ( Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many...