Hellstar

by Michael Reaves, S. Perry

Twenty-five years out from Earth Heaven Star was halfway to a new world, when the strange set in. It was only small things at first . . . measurements that were slightly off . . . instruments that wouldn't stay . . . calibrated computer malfunctions. But it wasn't.

For on the quantum level, the eternal dance of matter and energy was changing its measure, and the colonists bound for heaven were writing a space/time curve down to the deepest circle of Hell.

Genres: Science Fiction

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 1984

About the author

Michael Reaves is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and screenwriter whose many credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twilight Zone, Batman: The Animated Series, and Gargoyles. His novels include the New York Times bestseller STAR WARS: Darth Maul- Shadowhunter and STAR WARS: Death Star. He and Neil Gaiman cowrote Interworld. Reaves has also written short fiction, comic books, and background dialogue for a Megadeth video. He lives in California.

Reviews

[Chris Elford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hard to get into and a pretty dumb ending.

[Barry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think my standards were a bit lower when I read this book. At the time I thought the book was okay, but even then I thought that the concept of human evolutions' next step being a huge leap into mass consciousness was a little to out there. Add the idea that those who can't cope with the change die (which is a little extreme) and that dolphins on the interstellar traversing ship are included in this transition, it was a little too Timothy Leary mental experimentation and hippie "animals are people too" for my taste.