num_pages: 104
description: On a habitable moon near Tau Ceti, a young man named Comet Jo encounters a devil-kitten and sees a spaceship crash land. One of the people in the spaceship tells Jo that he has to take an urgent message to Empire Star, and dies. Another collapses to form Jewel, a compact, multicolored, multiplexed crystalline entity. Empire Star is the story of Comet Jo's journey to deliver the message, as narrated by Jewel.
language: English
title: Empire star
titlecomplete: Empire star (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Novella, Space, Novels
ratings_count: 1089
publisher: Gregg Press