For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.
The ship's captain--immortal, obessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying.
Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of the dark beyond the stars....
- ISBN10 0312866240
- ISBN13 9780312866242
- Publish Date 15 November 1997 (first published 15 March 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 March 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English