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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aCoppel, Alfred,
_d1921-2004
245 1 4 _aThe Starbusters
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Planet Stories Summer 1949
500 _aRelease date is 2020-11-22
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Starbusters" by Alfred Coppel, Jr. is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The book explores themes of space travel and encounters with alien intelligences, as it chronicles the exploits of a crew aboard the aging warship T.R.S. Cleopatra. These characters navigate complex situations involving military orders and technological innovations all while threading relationships among them." The storyline follows Commander David Strykalski and his crew as they are unexpectedly assigned to the experimental Project Warp, intended to turn their ship into a hyper-ship capable of interstellar travel. As tensions rise due to an impending alien invasion by the warlike Eridans, the crew must confront their fears and loyalties while preparing for battle. After a harrowing encounter in an alien cosmos, where the very rules of physics seem altered, they discover that their ship's existence is a precarious balance of destruction and survival. Ultimately, they devise a bold plan to transport a contraterrene planetoid back into their own space as a weapon against the Eridan group-mind, leading to explosive and thought-provoking consequences that challenge their understanding of life, morality, and existence in the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWar stories
653 _aSpace ships -- Fiction
700 1 _aVestal, Herman B.,
_d1916-2007
830 0 _aProduced from Planet Stories Summer 1949
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63855
999 _c104679
_d104679