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Farthest Star

by Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson · 1975

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The Saga of Cuckoo

There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo.

20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy.

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Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew of replicates, both human and alien, to intercept. It was a doomed ship.

Yet from that mission came Ground Station One, peopled by tachyon transmission, its crew impatient to explore the menace of Cuckoo.

Towards them flee a young nomadic wingman, a redbearded giant, and a replicate Ben Yale Pertin intent only on survival, until a frightened girl screams for help...

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aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of this
Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 189 pages

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