I Want the Stars
About this audiobook
THEY WANTED THE STARS...
Eight hundred years from now, Earth is a paradise. Humanity has faced its greatest challenges...and won. Every wish is fulfilled. Every need is met. But is that enough?
Jenorden wants more, wandering the galaxy with his friends as he seeks the answer. He knows his life is missing something. But what? And when aliens from another galaxy appear, offering to answer any question and reveal any secret, are their motives sinister...or sincere?
About the author
Gideon Marcus is the founder of Journey Press, an independent publisher focused on unusual and diverse speculative fiction. He is also a four-time Hugo Finalist for the time machine project, Galactic Journey.
An acclaimed science fiction author, he has just released Hyvilma, third book in The Kitra Saga, a YA space adventure series featuring themes of isolation, teamwork, and hope, and starring a queer protagonist of color.
His short fiction can be found in Dark Matter, Utopia, Simultaneous Times, and elsewhere. He is also the editor of the Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women anthology series, featuring some of the best works of science fiction’s Silver Age.
Gideon lives in San Diego County with his writer/editor wife and their polymath artist daughter…along with a cat, a snake, and an immense library.
Thomas Edward Purdom (born 1936) was an American writer best known for a science fiction career that has spanned six decades. His story Fossil Games was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2000. The 1964 book I Want the Stars, Tom's first, was a progressive masterpiece. His stories continued to appear regularly since in all of the prestigious science fiction magazines. He also wrote music criticism articles in the 1980s and 90s. His works have been translated into German, Chinese, Burmese, Russian, and Czech.
He frequently attended the monthly meetings of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and usually attended the Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference in November.
