The Dark Beyond the Stars - Hardcover

Robinson, Frank M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312851669 ISBN 13: 9780312851668

Publisher: Tor Books, 1991

Synopsis

Only a teenaged technical assistant named Sparrow can reverse the course of the ailing starship Astron, headed for a one-hundred-generation-long journey through an uninhabited stretch of space

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life - without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space. The ship's captain - immortal, obsessed - refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying. Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of the dark beyond the stars...

About the Author:

Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) is the author of the classic thrillers, The Power, filmed in 1968, and The Glass Tower, which was one of the sources for the Irwin Allen blockbuster film The Towering Inferno. A U.S. Navy veteran of both WWII and the Korean War, he earned degrees in physics and journalism. He worked at a number of magazines, including Science Digest, Rogue, Cavalier and Playboy before becoming a freelance writer. He is the author of many novels and stories, a noted collector of pulp magazines, and was the executor of the estate of Harvey Milk. His novel The Dark Beyond the Stars won the Lambda Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312851669
• ISBN 13: 9780312851668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408