num_pages: 420
description: For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying.Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain, and against the lure and challenge of the dark beyond the stars...
language: English
title: The Dark Beyond the Stars
titlecomplete: The Dark Beyond the Stars
genres: Science Fiction, Queer, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, LGBT, Space, Fiction, Space Opera, Gay, Mystery
ratings_count: 930
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy
publisher: Orb Books