Is Beyond Starlight a true story that hopped a cosmic ride from elsewhere in another universe as Abbey suggests, you decide. Out past Pluto, the crew of the Sunchaser encounters an alien self replicating probe that scatters them across parallel universes and time in the multiverse. While trying to find their way back, they encounter sentient machine encephalons, planets that move at the whims of gray goo nanobots and discover what lies beyond starlight in the void at the edge of the universe. When two of the crew are saved by a benign sentient device called a Watcher and remade to be more than human, it prompts one to ask angrily “Watcher, do I have a soul, do I now call you god?” Eventually they fall into the dark energy well of the Genesis Point located at the ignition point of the big bang. Have they uncovered the backdoor that leads to the architects of the universe?
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By Eric Russ
Jan 3, 2007
"One imaginative piece of work A+" I was told by a friend about this book who described it as classic SF on steroids, so I downloaded it. I liked the themes and style. Abbey doesn’t let science get in the way but seems to focus on people and how new science will effect relationships. I thought the description of the nano filled rogue world creating a huge world wide wave in order to move in orbit to so it/they can eat was cool considering development of nano technology in the real world today. Liked the book, just want to know where did all the earthlings go?
