Benford's Cosm wasn't about creating a blacxk hole - they created a baby universe.
But still, the novel this makes me think of the most is Earth by David Brin.
A physicist is hired by some Sotuh American generals to create a quantum black hole in order to harness it for cheap power. Enviro-fanatics storm the complex and cut the power from the containment field.
Black hole falls into the earth, and choas ensues.
Good book. But then again I haven't read anything by David Brin that I didn't like - he's a scientist who knows how to spin a really good yarn.
/sci-fi geek for 30 years and counting!
I read a good short story in one of the "The Year's Best Science Fiction" collections (edited by Gardner Dozois) a couple of years ago where they accidentally create a micro black hole on the moon's surface in the course of some sort of high-energy physics. It falls to the center of the moon, and then past it, and then back again, and again, chewing up the moon and growing as it goes, hollowing the moon out. Eventually they end up with a moon-mass black hole orbiting the earth. Interesting concept.
Did you ever read "The Day the Earth Froze"?....Scientists made a bomb from anti-matter and it threw us into an ice age.