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In the near future, humankind's Project Starseed uses faster-than-light quantum-wave technology to send colonists to distant star systems. When the ninety-ninth - and final - ship lands on a bleak and icy world in the shadow of a dead star, the future looks grim for the colonists. First an exploration party disappears without a trace. Soon the colonists are besieged by sabotage and deadly conflict. Meanwhile, though billions of years have passed without life on the iceworld, the arrival of the humans has set something astir. This mysterious entity will determine the fate of the ship, and of a world poised between death and eternity.

"Some pieces of the plot-puzzle clearly don't fit, yet this is still one of Williamson's all-time best efforts; for splendid characters, fascinating scenario, and sheer 'sense of wonder,' it's hard to beat."

Kirkus, 12/15/1996

"What is most appealing about 'The Black Sun' is not its newness but its ageless enthusiasm: after all these years, Williamson has never lost the explosive wonder that he discovered in SF as a child, and that he described so definitively in his autobiography."

Locus, February 1997

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