{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner -- ex-astronaut-turned astronomer -- is dying.But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered \"Eater,\" an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed...and feared."}, "covers": [237638, 8430319], "key": "/works/OL108285W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL32471A"}}], "title": "Eater", "subjects": ["Science fiction", "Fiction", "Science Fiction", "Black holes (Astronomy)", "Fiction, science fiction, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T22:32:26.738690"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-07-31T16:34:27.458462"}}