Dark Beyond the Stars: A Novel

Dark Beyond the Stars: A Novel

by Frank M . Robinson (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 19 Mar 1998

ISBN 10: 0312866240
ISBN 13: 9780312866242

Media Reviews
A generation-ship masterpiece....Do not miss this novel. -- Los Angeles Times

The Dark Beyond the Stars is the welcome return of a very talented writer. --William Gibson

A generation-ship masterpiece....Do not miss this novel. Los Angeles Times

The Dark Beyond the Stars is the welcome return of a very talented writer. William Gibson


A generation-ship masterpiece....Do not miss this novel. --Los Angeles Times

The Dark Beyond the Stars is the welcome return of a very talented writer. --William Gibson

Author Bio

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.