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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....
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.
