Yesterday's Children Author:David Gerrold Only an endless space war could have produced the Roger Burlingame. A war that had caused Earth to turn starships into total instruments of destruction. A war that had so drained Earth of resources that the Roger Burlingame was kept in service long after it should have been scrapped. — Now light years from Earth, the Roger Burlingame had sighted ... more »a quarry almost certain to defeat it in a fair fight. The captain's nerve was gone. The crew verged on mutiny. And command had passed to a fanatical young first officer hungry for his first kill.
War had turned into hell--and this was a voyage of the damned...« less