Dark Star Author:Alan Dean Foster Del Ray Books (c) 1974 — Publication date October 1978 — If anything could possibly go wrong aboard the scout ship Dark Star, sooner or later it would. Now, in the twentieth year of their mission - destroying unstable planets - the ship and its crew were slowing and steadily falling apart. After 20 years in space, isolation and loneliness had left... more » their mark. The four surviving crewmembers were bored beyond relief. Only an occasional bomb run or another of the inevitable malfunctions aboard ship upset the monotony. Ten, one day, Bomb #20 was primed, armed, and set to detonate.. and suddenly life on the Dark Star became frantic?« less