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Starborne. 1996 Starborne
by Robert Silverberg
First Edition 1996
Bantam Spectra
New York
ISBN 0553102648
Hardback in dust jacket
Cover illustration by Bruce Jensen
292 pages
Price: $22.95

Notes
Starborne, a standalone novel by Robert Silverberg.

Previously published in a shorter form as Ship-Sister, Star-Sister in Frontier: Tomorrow's Alternatives (ed. Roger Elwood, 1973).

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1997 Voyager/ HarperCollins paperback edition, ISBN 0586211098. Cover illustration by Fred Gambino.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
THE GREATEST ENTERPRISE IN HUMAN HISTORY

The decadent society of 23rd-century Earth is seized by an idea so powerful the imagination of all humankind is aroused from stagnation. A starship, the Wotan, is built and sent out into the unknown depths of space in search of a habitable world: a new Eden, where humanity might reinvent itself through the challenge of a virgin planet. If such a planet can be found in a lifetime of searching. The only certainty for the Woton's crew of fifty men and women is that they are bound on a journey from which they will not return.

But as the stardrive kicks in and the Wotan makes its giddy leap into the matter-free tube of nospace the problems begin. The diversity of the cosmos is revealed in its utter strangeness. And as humanity's emissaries to the universe in general, frail specks of life engulfed by loneliness, the crew of the Wotan confront the unknown.

'Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow'
-Isaac Asimov

 
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