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Fifty men and women are chosen as the crew of the Wotan, in what is certain to be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. Their mission is to travel to the furthest reaches of the galaxy in search of inhabitable worlds. The crew is shut off from Earth except for a telepathic link between a crew member and his sister back home. But when that connection is broken, the Wotan is lost in space until it encounters a vast alien presence that forces the crew to question everything they know about life and death.
Amazon.com Review
In Starborne, Silverberg takes the Utopia theme and turns it on its head. The scene is Earth many centuries in the future, where all of life's problems have been solved. But while humanity may be well fed, amply clothed, in perfect health, and rich beyond imagination, people are bored nearly to death. To bring a little spark back into the lives of humankind, the people of Earth band together to build a starship and begin the search for habitable planets in the rest of the universe.
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