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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 1592121756
Pages: 210 pages
Publisher: Galaxy Press
Price: 24.95
Reader Rating: 10 out of 10
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To the Stars by L. Ron Hubbard

Description: "To the Stars" is set in an uncertain, strife-torn future when the first starships of man are traveling across the galaxy-but not without extracting a terrible price from their crews.
The novel's thought-provoking opening line, "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy," powerfully captures the challenges facing the brave mane and women of these vessels-people who must give up their former lives to explore space as entire generations and whole societies come and go on Earth, while those aboard remain essentially untouched by the passage of time in a vessel traveling at nearly the speed of light.
The immersing, remarkably ruthless drama begins when Alan Corday, a naively unseasoned but brilliant young engineer, is shanghaied from the spaceport at New Chicago and taken aboard the "Hound of Heaven"-bound for the stars.
Commanded by a distantly mysterious but charismatic leader by the name of Captain Jocelyn, the "Hound" traverses the galaxy in an effort to keep a lifeline between Earth and the first colonies in other star systems. But in the time span of a few crossings, conditions on Earth grow gradually worse and more dangerous, while those aboard are increasingly treated as outcasts and a threat to the powers that control the planet.
Against his will, Corday is mercilessly driven by Jocelyn to use his untested intellect and abilities to serve the ship and the beleaguered space colonies. But as events unfold among the turbulent reaches of the galaxy, and during the perilous returns to Earth, Corday discovers a startling truth about his destiny that will give a whole new meaning to man's place in the stars.

Jerry Pournelle - "To the Stars, by L. Ron Hubbard, is one of the greatest science fiction novels that has ever been written."

Entertainment Weekly - "Shanghaied from a New Chicago spaceport, Alan Corday joins a crew of rascals on a long intergalactic trip at nearly the speed of light.... Key Concepts: relativity, off-world colonization....The story is still pertinent today."

Publishers Weekly starred review - "Hubbard brilliantly evokes the vastness of space and the tragedy of those who wold conquer it.... This is indeed golden SF."

The Midwest Book Review - To the Stars is vintage science fiction adventure by L. Ron Hubbard. A vividly exciting work of mind-expanding science fiction."