To Escape the Stars
To Escape the Stars is a 1978 science fiction novel by US editor and writer Robert Hoskins. It is the third of three in the "Stars" sequence, 10,000 years after the previous novel, where gate travel between worlds is common, even for transporting raw materials. The novel has two distinct parts, the first describing the bad behavior of the protagonist, the second describing the renewed search for the advanced aliens from Alnia.