The Starless World

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Cover of the 1978 original
Author(s):	Gordon Eklund
Publisher:	Bantam Books Titan Books
Series:	Bantam TOS Star Trek Adventures (Titan Books reprint)
Published:	November 1978 November 1984 27 January 1994 (Titan Books reprint)
Pages:	152
Stardate:	6532.1 (Unknown)
Reference:	ISBN 1852865059 (Titan Books reprint)

Contents 1 Summary 2 Background Information 2.1 Cover gallery 3 Characters 4 References 5 External link

[edit] 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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[edit] Background Information

• This was the first Star Trek novel by Gordon Eklund, who later went on to write Devil World.

[edit] Cover gallery

Cover image of 1984 edition

Star Trek Adventures edition cover

[edit] 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

[edit] References

Klingon Empire, USS Rickover, Dyson Sphere, black hole, galactic core, Gods

[edit] External link

• The Starless World at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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