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Title: Starman's Quest

Author: Robert Silverberg

Illustrator: Stan Mack

Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27444]

Language: English

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Starman's Quest

BOOKS BY ROBERT SILVERBERG

_Starman's Quest_
_Revolt on Alpha C_
_The Thirteenth Immortal_
_Master of Life and Death_
_The Shrouded Planet_
(with Randall Garrett)
_Invaders from Earth_

Starman's
Quest

_by_

ROBERT
SILVERBERG

GNOME PRESS [Device]

HICKSVILLE, N. Y.

Copyright 1958 by Robert Silverberg

_First Edition. All Rights Reserved_

_This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced
in any form without permission, except for brief
quotations in critical articles and reviews._

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-8767

MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A.

Transcriber's Note:

Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant
spellings have been retained.

_Author's Preface_

This was my second novel, which I wrote when I was 19, in my junior year
at Columbia. I've written better ones since. But readers interested in
the archaeology of a writing career will probably find much to explore
here.

Robert Silverberg
17 May 2008

FOR BILL EDGERTON

1933-1956

_Prologue_

The Lexman Spacedrive was only the second most important theoretical
accomplishment of the exciting years at the dawn of the Space Age, yet
it changed all human history and forever altered the pattern of
sociocultural development on Earth.

Yet it was only the _second_