Title: The Dark Beyond the Stars
First published: 1991
Description: For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search 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, obessed--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....
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner
LC classification: PS3568.O2888 D37 1991