Mission Beyond The Stars
Book #1 of Saga Of The Lost Worlds
by
Charles Neely and Grady L. Dobbs
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© Copyright 2000, 2012 Charles Neely and Grady L. Dobbs
ISBN: 9781301493425
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Mission Beyond The Stars: Synopsis
In a densely populated stellar cluster high above the Milky Way, entire solar systems have vanished, leaving no trace, no clue to the cause, and no idea of who the perpetrators might be. The distressed leaders of the Kepren Cluster Alliance developed a defensive evacuation plan so desperate that their determined opposition prevented its implementation.
Then a third populated Alliance system disappeared.
Agreement was reached. Their desperate plan was enacted.
Three years later, a single planet disappears, orphaning its artificial moon—the "Wasp"—and trapping the members of its crew. The Wasp’s new trajectory catapults it on a direct path to a mutually destructive collision with Kepren, the Alliance’s central governing planet.
If Kepren is destroyed, the entire population of the Cluster Alliance will be forever doomed.
The remaining robotic overseers cannot handle the dire emergency, so a small team of select individuals must return from their distant evacuation point to avert the impending devastation, resolve a cosmic intrigue, confront a conflict of universes, and prevent total disaster…
An adventurous tale of conflict in space, Mission Beyond The Stars is an intricately crafted work of speculative fiction that incorporates faster-than-light ships, inter-dimensional transport, multiple universes, and unplanned time-travel. Memorably real characters are woven together in webs of cosmic confrontation and quiet courage, maddening mystery and mystical metaphysics, clashing intrigue and quests for higher consciousness.
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Table Of Contents:
Cover Illustration
Copyright And Distribution Information
Synopsis
Mission Beyond The Stars
Prologue
Chapters 1 - 58
Epilogue
Authors' Note
Appendix:
# 1: Regency Coalition Pronunciation Key
# 2: Characters: Earth, Kepren, Coalition, Cronul
# 3: Terms, Objects And Places: Earth, Kepren, Coalition, Cronul
# 4: Basic Time Units (Conversion Chart: Earth, Kepren, Coalition)
# 5: Relative positions of Earth and Kepren in the Milky Way Galaxy (image)