World Without Stars

This crash-lands on the planet carrying unexpected cargo: This extraordinary Commonwealth child possesses knowledge that could save them all. But if the Fallers catch her, the people of Bienvenido will not survive. A thrilling, multi-viewpoint ride. Hamilton Night Without Stars. Night Without Stars Peter F. See more book details 27 July Meeting at the launch, they decide the best thing to do is to show the queen and the emperor the universe outside Zahir in the hope that they will then understand the peril they are in.

They are disturbed when Klopka and Alzafar come round and begin fighting with each other. When they pass through into the outside of Zahir, Klopka and Alzafar see the stars for the first time. They are so shocked they go into a dead faint straight away. Now aware of the danger they are in, they agree to put their differences aside and work to save Zahir and Ukbar.

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The settlers of Ukbar and the Zahirians open up contact with a view to trade. On Zahir, society is rocked to discover that Klopka has married Alzafar and other marriages follow, leading to the collapse of the chauvinistic divisions between the two sides. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the French film, see Land Without Stars. Retrieved from " https: Comics infobox image less caption Graphic novel pop. Views Read Edit View history. This page was last edited on 11 November , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

World without Stars Urania by Poul Anderson. A normal man would have lain down and died, but to Hugh Valland the task before him seemed simple enough.

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It was necessary to organize a revolution by a group of primitives against their telepathic overlords; build with the help of those same primitives a spaceship virtually from scratch; contact, via that spaceship, a third group of aliens, and enlist their aid in returni A normal man would have lain down and died, but to Hugh Valland the task before him seemed simple enough.

It was necessary to organize a revolution by a group of primitives against their telepathic overlords; build with the help of those same primitives a spaceship virtually from scratch; contact, via that spaceship, a third group of aliens, and enlist their aid in returning home across the galactic abyss. At worst it would take a lifetime Mass Market Paperback , pages. Published February by Ace first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about World without Stars , please sign up.

Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. As a fan of Poul Anderson he has happy endings and I'm a sucker for them , when I ran across this book for a good price it might even have been free at the time , I picked it up. So you can imagine that I was a little disappointed in it by the 3-star rating.

The book reads almost like a short story, certain details missing that would add to it, but at the same time do not really detract from the story. And while Hugh Valland is the main protagonist, there are other characters involved, includin As a fan of Poul Anderson he has happy endings and I'm a sucker for them , when I ran across this book for a good price it might even have been free at the time , I picked it up.

World Without Stars

And while Hugh Valland is the main protagonist, there are other characters involved, including the narrator who is responsible for most of the content of the book from "logs. The story moves along at a decent clip, but the first part is entirely too vague for me. I could not get a picture of anyone or anything, and it throttled my potential enjoyment. When the humans come in, they are also similarly vague with Hugh being the lone exception. And perhaps this is the first sign of a flaw in this book.

Hugh comes across as "too perfect" to be believable. He exists not only as the deus ex machine but also as an anachronism to a time before technology ruled the worlds of the people in this story with the exception of the aliens who are far more primitive. With the "flawed" main character, the rest of the book just doesn't really hold up for me. I care, but not enough. And when the happy ending arrives, it comes too quickly and is telegraphed.

All that being said, this is not a bad story. It's just not a great or even very good story. Again, I like Poul Anderson's works a lot, but not this one. It's just okay, and even Anderson fans won't miss out by skipping it. Jul 30, Adam rated it liked it Shelves: Some of my favorite sci-fi authors credit Poul Anderson as their inspiration.

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I had no idea where to start, so I started with this one. A nice short story with some interesting ideas. In particular, I like that the author tried to come up with a setting that was different than any other sci-fi Some of my favorite sci-fi authors credit Poul Anderson as their inspiration. In particular, I like that the author tried to come up with a setting that was different than any other sci-fi I've read: There was also some interesting anthropological efforts, at figuring out the culture of a group of psychic creatures that have slowly evolved for tens of millions of years and how that would affect their perspective of themselves.

There were definitely some gaps in terms of plot and character development so I wouldn't credit this book as an example of excelling writing. But there were good ideas and some fun action and I enjoyed reading it. I'd say the book was more like a mash-up of good ideas and sequences, but with the connecting threads running pretty loose. Still, I'll find something else by Poul Anderson and keep reading to see what I think. Dec 13, Jim rated it liked it. This is a short novel pages by one of my favorite science fiction authors, Poul Anderson I enjoyed his writing style which could be very descriptive.

In his SF, he always put in some hard science. Moreover, he had a knowledge of history which he used in some of his stories.

I particularly liked his Technic civilization series, which included his Flandry stories. This one, from , does not fit in that series-or any series I think. The story involves a spacecraft reaching a This is a short novel pages by one of my favorite science fiction authors, Poul Anderson The story involves a spacecraft reaching a planet of a stellar system between galaxies. Hence, it's "the world without stars. But they also find out they have "ancient gods" who are very real Jul 08, George K.

Jul 04, Robert rated it really liked it.

A keeper, which surprised me. Focusing on style, it's a remarkably short book, which makes it even more powerful. I loved the Hugh Valland character and suspected that he was living for ideals, which makes it even more powerful when you reach the end.