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Jack Williamson


The Saga of Cuckoo

Saga of Cuckoo

Jack Williamson
Frederik Pohl

Omnibus edition contains:

  • Farthest Star - (1975)
  • Wall Around a Star - (1983)

Farthest Star

Saga of Cuckoo: Book 1

Frederik Pohl
Jack Williamson

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 mission 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...

Wall Around a Star

Saga of Cuckoo: Book 2

Frederik Pohl
Jack Williamson

He was a reluctant passenger on a voyage to save the galaxy...

Butterflylike aliens had brought Earth into the galactic culture. But she was a poor relation, valued only for the living human human bodies she rented out for whatever purposes her nonhuman customers desired.

Then Cuckoo was discovered. Millions of miles in diameter, less dense than air, it had a solid surface that was home to many races - including a species of Man. And that was odd, for Cuckoo was from another galaxy!

Suddenly, one human, a linguist, became very important. If Jen Babylon could solve the mystery of Cuckoo's records he might raise humanity's standing among the older races - but he might also save the galaxy!

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