Cageworld - No. 4 Star-Search

Cageworld #4

by Colin Kapp

To see the stars.This was the great and paradoxical dream. To stand and look upward into space, at the myriad pin-points of light, forever out of reach, just as their forebears on Earth had in the long gone days before the building of the planetary shells.Mars, Jupiter, Saturn...Shell had succeeded shell, each studded with its captive caged worlds, each progressively populated by men who could look up only into a sky of artificial luminaries and space debris.Always Zeus, man-created prime mover, was at work beyond them, the giant space machines forming and working the next shell.uranus, Neptune, Pluto...The last shell.Again they Maq Ancor, Master Assassin, Magician Cherry and Sine Anura, Mistress of the Erotic, to reach the outer shell, to return to the past when Man could see the stars.

Genres: Science Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Colin Derek Ivor Kapp was a popular UK science fiction author, but one who never became a success in the USA. He was active, though not prolific, as an author in the 1960s through to the 1980s.

He is best known for his "Unorthodox Engineers" stories, which recount an eccentric group of engineers, who accomplish impossible feats of engineering against all odds.

Pen names: Colin Papp, Colin Capp.

Reviews

[Bryan457 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maq, Cherry and Sine travel out to the limits of the cageworld system. What will Zeus do with the excess population of man once the limits of the cageworld system has been reached?

Quite a good ending to this one.

[SciFiOne · Rating 3 out of 5]

1988 grade C+

Series book CW4