Farthest Star - Saga of Cuckoo, Bk 1 Author:Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson The Saga of Cuckoo — There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. — 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy. — Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew of replicates, both human and alien, to intercept. It was a doomed ship. — Yet from that missio... more »n came Ground Station One, peopled by tachyon transmission, its crew impatient to explore the menace of Cuckoo.
Towards them flee a young nomadic wingman, a redbearded giant, and a replicate Ben Yale Pertin intent only on survival, until a frightened girl screams for help…« less