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Artifact

A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb.

An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age,its purpose, and its origins are unknown.

Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft andespionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war.

Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.

It is mystery and madness -- an enigma with no equal in recordedhistory. It is mankind's greatest discovery ... and worst nightmare.

It may have already obliterated a world. Ours is next.

A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaen tomb.

An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose, and its origins are unknown.

Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war.

Its substance has scientist baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.

It is mystery and madness-an enigma with no equal in recorded history. It is mankind's greatest discovery. . .and worst nightmare.

It may have already obliterated a world. Ours is next.

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Archaeologists have unearthed a strange artifact buried in a 3500-year-old Mycenaen tomb. A small cube of black rock topped with an amber horn, it contains the heat of a sun within and its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue and espionage, and has led nations to the brink of war. And now a team of dedicated scientists must unlock the secrets of its origins and its purpose, before a mysterious relic that may have already obliterated one world destroys another.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Indiana Jones meets Particle Physics, Jui 14 2004

Par	E. Nichols (Bloomington, IN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Artifact (Mass Market Paperback)

Perhaps I'm biased because I like Benford's style: I couldn't put the book down. I read it straight through, just stopping once for lunch. It's not Benford's best book because his others are all so great, but it was much better than I expected after reading the other reviews here. Benford mixes in plenty of realistic science, archaeology, and university politics with the action of the plot. At the end of the book, an interesting "Technical Afterword" puts the sci-fi in context with "real" physics.

My favorite line from the book is typical Benford: "He had noted that the noise in a room rose as the square of the number of people in it..."

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2.0�toiles sur 5 BARELY ENTERTAINING AND HARD TO READ, Ao� 5 2003

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I've read other Benford books before, and this does not compare to his previous work! The heroine here is an immature and reckless and chain-smoking, crazy woman called Claire. She's an amateur archeologist who STEALS a precious artifact from Greece just to get revenge on the Greek co-director of the dig site. The Greek dude, Kontos is guilty of sexual harrasment to Claire, but Claire, the crazy woman that she is, is guilty of GRAND THEFT of a national Greek treasure. I also consider her GUILTY of all the TROUBLE caused by her theft! Her utterly brainless ... actions lead to a WASTE OF US TAXPAYER MONEY because the US has to launch a major military operation to try to FIX UP the consequences of HER THEFT! Lots of people lose their lives (Greek and American) because of HER STUPIDITY!!!!!!! And guess what? She lives in the end, she gets her man and has a happy ending! How stupid! The plot of this book is totally majorly [dumb]! Mr. Benford, if this is what has become of your writing talent, I believe you should stick to PHYSICS and stop trying to be an SF/Adventure/Romance writer!!!!!!!!!

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Good science; Bad fiction, F�v 27 2003

Par	Neal C. Reynolds (Indianapolis, Indiana) - Voir tous mes commentaires (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

While I basically have difficulties with "hard science-fiction", I enjoy reading it in order to expand my mind and seek a better understanding of theoretical science. Gregory Benford is good for this, and he is capable, as in "Timescape", of writing a good story embodying the science.

For me, "Artifact" just does not fill the bill. I honestly had the impression that he was trying his darndest to write something that could possibly be turned into a movie.

The heroine is a typical educated woman trying to prove herself professionally, faced with a military type adversary who wants to bed her. She enlists a conveniently weaker though intellectually capable guy to help her smuggle a mysterious object out of Greece into the U. S. Naturally, the object turns out to be a scientific oddity with sinister capabilities.

I'm not one to say that you won't enjoy this quite long novel. All I can tell you is that I believe I'm a very literate and also a very tolerant and diversified reader who likes much of what he reads....and I found this to be a chore to read.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Quasi SF
The reason that I read books that are described as "science fiction" is, ultimately, for the science fiction. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 29 2003 par Octavius Absinthe

3.0�toiles sur 5 Far, far from his best . . .
Benford can be infuriatingly inconsistent in the style and quality of his writing, but the occasional winner keeps me reading his stuff. Read more

Publi� le Jui 28 2002 par Michael K. Smith

1.0�toiles sur 5 major let-down
I picked this up as a used book, so my edition is older than most, but I have to agree with some other reviewers here who questioned why it was brought back into print. Read more

Publi� le Mai 9 2002 par Plaque

2.0�toiles sur 5 Could be shorter
Very good hard SF premise, but the novel includes a lot of fluff, developing [bad] characters. I think if the story were condensed to 100 pages, it would be hugo-quality.

Publi� le Juil 25 2001 par satyen navin shah