The Dark Beyond the Stars: A Novel

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Macmillan, 1998 - 408 Seiten

For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search 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, obessed--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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Abel Aquinas artificial reality asked Banquo believe bulkhead Captain caught close compartment Corin corridor crew members crewmen Crow and Loon Dark dozen drifted Earth Escalus Exploration exploration suits eyes face falsie feel felt finally fingers flatlined floated friends glanced glow tubes Grebe guessed Hamlet hammock hand hangar deck happened hatch hatchway head helmet Heron Huldah hundred Hydroponics knew Kusaka Laertes Lander live looked memories ment methane Mike murmured mutiny never Noah nodded once Ophelia palm terminal passageway peep screen pellet gun Pipit planet played port pushed Raymond Stone realized remember Rover Seti shadow screen ship shook shrugged sick bay silence sleep period slipped smile Snipe Sparrow stared stars suddenly suit sure surprised sweat talk tell terminal pad tether line There's thing thought Thrush tion told took tried trying turned Tybalt voice waistcloth waited wanted watched wondered writing slate

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 1 - I never saw sad men who looked So wistfully at the day. I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners call the sky, And at every careless cloud that passed In happy freedom by.‎
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Autoren-Profil (1998)

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.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelThe Dark Beyond the Stars: A Novel
Autor/inFrank M. Robinson
AusgabeNeuauflage, überarbeitet
VerlagMacmillan, 1998
ISBN0312866240, 9780312866242
Länge408 Seiten
  
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