The Skylark of Space
Cover artist: Jack Gaughan
Publisher: Pyramid
Pub year: 1968
Cover price: 60¢
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Cover artist: Jack Gaughan
Publisher: Pyramid
Pub year: 1968
Cover price: 60¢
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First in the great "Skylark" series — A voyage to the ends of the Universe!
It started on Earth
Scientist Richard Seaton had discovered the secret of complete release of ultimate energy — the key to exploration of the Universe. The powerful, unscrupulous DuQuesne, backed by a great industrial combine, tried every means to gain the secret....
It ended in space
Seaton, DuQuesne, and three others — two of them women — were marooned, countless light-years from Earth, with only one chance in a million of ever returning....
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Voyage to the ends of the Universe
DuQuesne grabbed to powerful glasses and looked through the spaceship's viewport.
"There's a dark star dead ahead!" he cried. He sprang to the control board and turned on full power.
Margaret cowered back. "What — what's happening?" she whispered fearfully.
"That star is pulling us straight toward it," DuQuesne replied. "And no matter how much power I turn on, the ship doesn't respond.
"We're going to crash right into it — at the speed of light!"
"A marvelous epic of science-fiction"
— Galaxy