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Starman’s Quest (The science fiction classic!)
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Thе rare science fiction novel, bу acclaimed author Robert Silverberg. Onlу 5,000 paperback copies wеrе mаdе, аnd οnlу 3,000 οf those wеrе bound.
Thе novel concerns twins, one οf whοm travels іn a spaceship аnd іѕ subject tο thе “Fitzgerald contraction,” thus aging slower thаn thе οthеr.
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Gambling with time …,
This was one of Silverberg’s early novels and one of his best. Essentially it is the tale to two brothers who make up part of a merchant family that travels by spaceship from star to star and near speed of set alight speeds which due to Einstein’s time dilation find these journeys take only a few months even as many years pass on Earth.
On a previous trip, one of the brothers has jumped ship and stayed behind on earth. Now its 6 weeks later for the on ship brother and they’ve come back to earth, but for the brother on earth many years have passed (10 to 12). The shipboard brother sets out to find his brother during the layover and does. He basically gets him back on the ship, but then decides to stay himself.
He meets a weird fellow who is a professional gambler and he himself becomes a gambler to support himself. After establishing himself and becoming wealthy he sets about to learn the secret of a lost “star drive” that will allow a ship to travel quicker than set alight. And so the plot boils down to: will he be able to succeed in learning this drive and then reuniting with his brother in space and them both be the same age again?
Read the book to experience a fascinating adventure in the world of gambling, a future earth (a rather weird one in fact) and a quest like adventure. Find out whether the hero succeeds or fails!
This is a fantastic read and one that I read as a young lad, and then searched it out several years ago so that I could read it again.
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|Author Condemns This Pirated Edition,
This is a pirated edition of a very early book of mine that I allowed to go into public domain, long ago, because I was replacing it with a revised edition. Back then, it did not seem worthwhile to renew the copyright, because I did not intend to allow a new edition of the original text to appear. Even though as a science-fiction writer I’m supposed to predict the future, I had no thought in 1969 that the Internet would arise and many years later so-called “publishers” would find this book and distribute it against my wishes for their own profit. It may be “classic’ science fiction now but it’s also the work of a beginning writer who, in later years, did not choose to offer it to readers, Someone else chose to do so anyway. You buy it at your own risk and with the knowledge that the author did not wish this version of the text, which he wrote when he was in institution, to appear again.
Robert Silverberg
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|Classic Sci Fi at it’s best,
An trustworthy attempt to described real science in an early sci-fi tale, Robert Silverberg weaves a tale of a spaceman (and his brother) that just isn’t pleased with the way that the world of star men is working, with the huge time differences that relativity causes. Of course, it’s out-of-date, but that’s one of the things I take pleasure in in these older Science Fiction tales….they still have the wonder and ‘gee whiz’ feel of it all that I had as a kid. I wouldn’t call it his best early tale, but it is a highly enjoyable, well written tale of the world of the future, a la 1950′s ideals.
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