TO ESCAPE THE STARS

Hoskins, Robert

ISBN 10: 0345258568 / ISBN 13: 9780345258564

Published by Del Rey/Ballantine, New York, 1978

About this Item

Vintage Paperback, Ballantine 25856: The third novel in Hoskins' Science Fiction "Stars" trilogy, this book features Jamas Oregas, a freesailer and con man, about to scam the inhabitants of a backwater planet. Instead, Oregas is doublecrossed and forced to use his knowledge of stargates to escape, landing on Prime, a planet that is the repository of galactic history. Oregas learns of a mysterious lost race that held the master key to the stargates for all worlds. The holder of the key will have power beyond all imaginings and Oregas now sets out in search of the lost race. Paperback Original, True First Printing, First Edition. Cover art by Dean Ellis. Wrappers show only minor surface and edge wear, no tears, no chipping. Text is lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean. Binding is tight, text clean, unmarked and complete. A quite scarce copy of this under-appreciated writer of the 1960s and '70s.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TO ESCAPE THE STARS
• Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345258568
• ISBN 13: 9780345258564
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Mass market paperback, 1st of two printings. This is the third in a trilogy of novels; it follows

Master of the Stars (1976)
To Control the Stars (1977)

This trilogy describes, over a period of aeons, a cluster of galactic civilizations connected by a system of ancient Stargates.