The Starless World

The Starless World is a Bantam TOS novel, written by Gordon Eklund, first published in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket (1984 edition):
:Captain's Log, Stardate 6532.1
:While investigating rumors of renewed activity by the Klingon Empire within the Galactic Core, the made contact with a shuttlecraft from the USS Rickover, a starship presumed lost with all hands over 20 years ago. The lone occupant of that shuttlecraft – Thomas Clayton, once my roommate at Starfleet Academy, now the self-proclaimed chosen son and favored prophet of a deity he calls Ay-nab. I had planned on disregarding Clayton entirely – until control of our engines was seized by an as-yet-unexplained outside force… a force, Clayton insists, that is now taking us to meet his god.
== Background information ==
* This was the first Star Trek novel by Eklund, who later went on to write Devil World.
=== Cover gallery ===
File:The Starless World 1984.jpg|Cover image of 1984 edition
File:The Starless World 1985 Corgi.jpg|1985 Corgi edition
File:The Starless World 1994.jpg| edition cover
== Characters ==
;James T. Kirk
;Thomas Clayton
== References ==
Klingon Empire; USS Rickover; Dyson sphere; black hole; galactic core; Gods
== External link ==
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