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The Starless World is a Bantam TOS novel, written by Gordon Eklund, first published in November 1978.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket (1984 edition)
- Captain's Log, Stardate 6532.1
- While investigating rumors of renewed activity by the Klingon Empire within the Galactic Core, the Enterprise made contact with a shuttlecraft from the USS Rickover, a starship presumed lost with all hands over 20 years ago. The lone occupant of that shuttlecraft – Thomas Clayton, once my roommate at Starfleet Academy, now the self-proclaimed chosen son and favored prophet of a deity he calls Ay-nab. I had planned on disregarding Clayton entirely – until control of our engines was seized by an as-yet-unexplained outside force… a force, Clayton insists, that is now taking us to meet his god.
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Background information[]
- This was the first Star Trek novel by Eklund, who later went on to write Devil World.
Cover gallery[]
Characters[]
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Bantam TOS characters.
- James T. Kirk
- Thomas Clayton
References[]
Klingon Empire; USS Rickover; Dyson sphere; black hole; galactic core; Gods
External link[]
- The Starless World at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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