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Starburst / Frederik Pohl.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Pohl, F.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pohl, Frederik, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1982.
- Summary:
- All does not go as planned when four couples, all extremely intelligent and beautiful, are sent to Alpha Centauri.
- The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They were the toast of the world press--true heroes, for they were to go where no man had gone before. Or so they thought. Dr. Dieter von Knefhausen knew otherwise--for there was no planet, no place to go...and no place from which to return. Knefhuasen had planned it that way. Of course, Knefhausen realized his plan wasn't exactly ethical. But then, he knew the ends often justify the means. And Knefhausen's plan worked better then even he had ever hoped!
- Notes:
- "A Del Rey book."
- "Cover painting: David B. Mattingly."--Back flap of dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 233393
- OCLC:
- 965140460
- Publisher Number:
- 06491 Science Fiction Book Club
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