Farthest Star

by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345243307
• ISBN13: 9780345243300
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A really large astronomical object is moving, so people decide to investigate and see what is going on. They are able to do this via a technique that is a little more commonly used now, perhaps, by sending fast moving copies. What do you do when there are many versions of yourself, and you know you are sending them off to die, most likely? How do you relate to a single person via the different versions of yourself, that sort of thing. All that and the worries associated with dealing with something that can create such an amazing display of technology.

from the book cover...

CUCKOO WAS COMING...No one knew what it was--but everyone knew it was trouble. Designated Object Lambda when it first appeared on the fringes of the galaxy, 20,000 light-years away, it was traveling at one-sixth the speed of light. The astrophysicists said that it was vast...light....and had the potential for utter destruction. So an existing space probe was reoriented to intercept; it was staffed with replicates of both humans and aliens. Then the probe began to leak radiation....FRom top info page:Tachyon transmission was a marvelous invention. A man could send infinite replicates of himself anywhere in the galaxy---wherever duty called. If one of the copies got killed, so what? The original would still be alive and well back on his home planet, and he could always send replacements. Such a man Ben Pertin, who lived on Earth. And then there was:Ben Charles Pertin---stationed on Sun One, central headquarters of the intelligent races in the galaxy.Ben James Pertin--sent to the probe ship Aurora after Ben Frank Pertin was reported missing on board.Ben Linc Pertin---dispatched to the artificial satellite orbiting Cuckoo.Ben Yale Pertin---one of the several Pertins sent to explore the surface of Cuckoo. Some returned---many did not. And most of them were in love with the same woman!"