Star Flight

UNKNOWN WORLDS-UNKNOWN DANGERS

The Stars are Ours: Dard Nordis is a hunted man. His brother was murdered for covert activities as a scientist in a world in which scientists and engineers are blamed for the global war that smashed civilization. The global dictatorship of Pax has ordered their execution. Now he is on the run, trying to find the secret stronghold of his brother's friends and colleagues—a hidden place where the few remaining scientists are desperately building a spaceship to escape to the stars.

Star Born. Centuries after the desperate flight from Earth, Pax has been overthrown and humanity again reaches for the stars. Rof Kurbi's spaceship reaches the planet Astra, but he and the crew do not know that the planet already has a colony established centuries ago by the fugitive humans from Earth. Nor do they know that the apparently friendly natives of the planet are actually the malevolent remnants of a corrupt civilization that all but destroyed itself millennia ago—and that they are plot-ting to eliminate all humans from Astra, both the recent arrivals and the star born colonists.

Publisher's Note: Star Flight has been previously published in parts as The Stars are Ours and Star Born. This is their first combined publication.

Cover Art by Stephen Hickman

Hardcover

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, October 2007

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ISBN-10: 1-4165-5506-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5506-3
eISBN: 978-1-61824-606-6

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Star Flight

ISBN-10: 1-4165-5506-4ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5506-3eISBN: 978-1-61824-606-6

ISBN-10: 1-4165-5506-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5506-3
eISBN: 978-1-61824-606-6