To the Stars

by L. Ron Hubbard

Overview

Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy....

How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a futuristic starship bound on an interstellar journey. . . on a trek at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past through unexpected time travel. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars.

“Remarkably powerful novel.” —John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding Science Fiction

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592121755
Publisher:	Galaxy Press (CA)
Publication date:	08/15/2004
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	860L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Originally published by Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1950, what has been called one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written is being re-released by Galaxy Press in a visually stunning hardcover edition.

L. Ron Hubbard's timeless classic To the Stars begins with one of the genre's most memorable opening lines: "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy." In a future where spaceships traverse the universe at nearly the speed of light, a young engineer's dreams of making a fortune in space have nightmarish consequences as he is forced into duty aboard a long-passage starship. These ships prove Einstein's time-dilation theory (as mass approaches the speed of light it approaches infinity, and time approaches zero) and even though their journey may only last a few weeks, decades have passed on Earth.

When Alan Corday finally returns to Earth, he immediately travels to New Chicago in search of his fiancée. But in the few weeks that he has been gone, Earth is -- to put it mildly -- much changed. Without family or friends or a relevant society to return to, Corday does what he vowed never to do again: He signs on for another long passage.

Not unlike the starships featured within, Hubbard's To the Stars has -- astonishingly -- beaten back Time, the relentless enemy. After more than half a century, the novel remains just as timely, just as awe-inspiring, just as profoundly moving as it was in 1950. Anyone who doubts the sheer creative and visionary genius of L. Ron Hubbard need just read this novel. Paul Goat Allen

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"One of his finest works.... Hubbard brilliantly evokes the vastness of space and the tragedy of those who would conquer it. ...this is indeed golden SF from the Golden Age.” —Publishers Weekly Starred review

"Awe-inspiring ... creative and visionary genius."  —Barnes & Noble Explorations

“Hubbard is a thinker who writes, rather than a writer who thinks, as most masters are.” —SFO Chronicle

"A master of the art of narrative." —Robert Silverberg

"To the Stars, by L. Ron Hubbard, is one of the greatest science fiction novels that has ever been written." —Jerry Pournelle

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