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Available
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Collection
Publication
Winthers forlag, København, 1958
Description
A SAGA OF COSMIC DIMENSIONS. To the Stars is set in an uncertain, strifetorn 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 thoughtprovoking opening line, "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy," powerfully captures the challenges facing the brave men 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.
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LibraryThing member adriel
Long distance space travel, at the speed of light, causes the effect that the crew barely ages on the ship while their friends and relatives on earth grow old and die off. Thousands of earth years pass by during a single lifetime of someone on the "long passage" ship. The hero of this story is
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kidnapped by the captain of the long voyage ship and is trained to be his successor. A well written fiction that is made all the better through character voices and superb music segments. Show Less
LibraryThing member Bruce_Deming
I have been rereading and listening to the audiobook today, May 5, 2013 I skimmed it years ago and set it aside. My appreciation for this tale went way up making better use of the glossary this time through.
Harsh and gritty though it is, the craftsmanship of its telling is remarkable. Deep as space
I still have a few chapters and suspensefully re-await its conclusion.
Harsh and gritty though it is, the craftsmanship of its telling is remarkable. Deep as space
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itself. I still have a few chapters and suspensefully re-await its conclusion.
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LibraryThing member Bruce_Deming
This story is gritty, harsh, brilliant and speculatively written off the Lorenz-Fitzgerald-Einstein equations. The audiobook is extraordinary and supplemented with a very beautiful piano track of Chick Corea.
Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Novella — 1951)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1950 (serialised)
1954 (book)
Physical description
144 p.; 17.8 cm
Local notes
Omslag: Ikke angivet
På titelbladet står Raymond F. Jones, hvilket er et byt med nr. 2.
Omslaget forestiller en mand i rumdragt bevæbnet med en maskinpistol og baggrunden en raket på vej væk
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
turretur
Oversat fra amerikansk "Return to Tomorrow" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Rumfartsserien, bind 1
På titelbladet står Raymond F. Jones, hvilket er et byt med nr. 2.
Omslaget forestiller en mand i rumdragt bevæbnet med en maskinpistol og baggrunden en raket på vej væk
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
turretur
Oversat fra amerikansk "Return to Tomorrow" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Rumfartsserien, bind 1
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Pages
144
DDC/MDS
| 813.52 |