The world beyond to-morrow the unopened future which lies at a point far distant from the early, fumbling attempts at space flight of our own times.

It is the future of mankind among the stars - but also a future of intrigue and treachery!

That is the setting of "Search the Dark Stars" A.A.Glynn's vigorous fantasy of a Galactic civilisation which has split against itself and on whose shambles a ruthless warlord of the stars has built a barbaric empire. Persistently striving to topple his autocratic power is the Mutant League, a band of mentally powerful supernormals who style themselves the "inheritors of wisdom and power".

Enter into this fantastic future in company with the man and the girl who dare to battle against the might of the New Empire - and who hold a guarded, vital secret. Travel with them in their urgent, hunted and hounded flight across the far-flung void of interstellar space and among the myriad worlds of peril of the starways.

"Search the Dark Stars" is a dynamic work of science fiction, a vivid novel of vast scope and swift action.

If your sense of wonder is jaded - try it!

These were the last weeks and days before the end of the world, before total destruction overwhelmed Earth and every living thing on the surface of the planet. No-one knew exactly how long they had before the sun turned nova and destroyed not only Earth, but all of the other planets in the Solar System. For mankind, the only escape lay in flight to the stars, to Alpha Centauri, more than four light-years distant.

The hyperdrive, capable of carrying them there at close on the speed of light had been developed, but as yet had not been perfected. In a world without a future, the starships were the only salvation of mankind and they could save only a minute fraction of the population of Earth.

Panic is there, but temporarily forgotten by most, as the plans for a mass exodus are speeded up, as the long hours of mounting tension draw to a close and Judgement Day, when the world shall be destroyed by fire, is no longer a hazy time in the far future, but something very close and very terrible. For those who remained behind, there could be no escape; death would come suddenly, eight minutes after the nova explosion. For those who fled the Solar System in the starships, untried and working on principles only partially understood, there was only the long, terrible journey through the endless night, not knowing what lay at the end of it.