In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (1972) I want to like Mr. Benford’s books.  I really do.  He’s one of the SF Masters, up there with Asimov, Clarke, and Norton, and he’s a scientist, too.  But each time I try to delve into one of his hard SF books, he goes off onto a tangent (in this case, a metaphysical one).  I guess it worked for Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 when the science got so dense that we saw God, but this book […]