Book description
Fortieth-Century Space Probe! The diabolically clever Bureau had
superbly trained their space pilot, beautiful Lena Thomas. Nothing could
go wrong in an age where science had conquered the universe. In one of
their fifteen faster-than-light ships, Lena would reach beyond the
over-populated Milky Way, carrying her grotesque cargo: seven programmed
prosthetic engineers to give advice and comfort, and 515 dead men sealed
in gelatinous fix. Exposed to the unskilled ultraviolet of space, they
would gradually become the living again! But the omniscient Bureau was
not aware of the black galaxy in Lena's charted path. And Lena's ship
fell into it, fell through twenty-five billion miles of hyperspace, into
the lifeless, timeless expanse of the dreadful pit . . . The cyborg
engineers couldn't help Lena now. She was totally alone except for the
awakening dead! If she geared the ship up to tachyonic drive, would she
break out of the terrifying black hole? Or would she destroy the
universe? Barry N. Malzberg (1939-) Barry N. Malzberg is an American
writer, editor and agent, whose prolific career has spanned numerous
genres - most notably crime and science fiction. Malzberg was
particularly active in the science fiction scene of the early seventies,
although he became disillusioned with the market forces defining the
field, and has rarely published SF works since. His most recent activity
in the field has been in the form of advice columns for writers in the
quarterly magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America. Barry N. Malzberg has been shortlisted for numerous awards,
including the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick.
