Gregory Benford · 1984 · Novel
Series: Ocean / Galactic Center
From back cover Warner paperback August 2004: Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child Toby of the Bishop Tribe are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity -- neither organic, nor cybernetic nor living matter -- reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen. But can the fallen descendant of starfarers understand this alien being in time -- and seize his only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Artificial intelligenceFictionBlack holes (Astronomy)Fiction, science fiction, generalScience fiction
isfdb_id: 1845
openlibrary_id: OL108295W
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