What awaits us out in space? *** New star-drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to human-kind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns...alone and dying of some strange type of radiation. *** No one can figure out what has happened to the ship or the crew. Nor does anyone know what happens to a ship travelling using star-drive technology. *** Does some unknown horror await us out there? *** The only way to find out is to go out again. And Arch Comyn is determined to be the one to solve the mystery. *** But is he, and the rest of mankind, ready for whatever awaits us beyond the Big Jump?
Dangerous hyperspace journey. A family-held corporation has tested interstellar space travel to Barnard's Star - and something has gone badly wrong. They race madly to put a second mission together before the oversight people can shut them down, as an outsider becomes involved with one of the women in the family, and mixed up in their corporate intrigue going along for the ride. A really very short novel, with a reasonably powerful ending. 3.5 out of 5
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