

Their ship is low on fuel and needs repairs.

Seen full on, it’s striking.Ĭlose up, whole hurricanes in the Rim Ocean look like punctuation marks: It has oceans, deserts, rivers, forests-but no major mountains. The upper rim of the Bowl is a habitable swath of land far larger than the area of Ringworld. A jet from its star passes through the hole, driving the whole system, magnetically controlled. There is a hole in the bottom larger than Jupiter. The Bowl is like half of a Dyson Sphere, part of it silvered like a mirrored cooking wok. A small star is traveling out ahead of (and pulling along) a large Bowl whose circumference is the size of the orbit of Mercury. On the way to a distant star, the starship SunSeeker comes upon a vast artificial construction that’s also heading for their common destination, a planet called Glory. Check out below for their summary of the Bowl of Heaven series, Book 3, Glorious, coming 06/16/20!īowl of Heaven opens with an astounding discovery. Fortunately, authors like Larry Niven and Gregory Benford understand our daily struggles. Getting into a series, remembering one that you read several moons ago, just understanding things in general…reading can be HARD sometimes.
