Title: Farthest Star

Title: Farthest Star Title Record # 3512
Authors: Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Date: 1975-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Cuckoo
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Fixup of the novella "Doomship" (1973) and the serial "The Org's Egg" (1974)

Synopsis: When an artifact is observed heading towards the Milky Way galaxy, the confederation of humans and alien races sends a Project Orion style nuclear powered probe to investigate it, populated by sending copies of scans of individuals by tachyon to be constructed on the probe; they labor to construct an even faster probe before they die from the stray radiation. Meanwhile on the object, a humanoid boy from one of the many resident species encounters some of the explorers transported to the surface, and together they must face attacks from another, unfamiliar species.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1977^ⓘTranslated by Pon Ruiter	Dutch	De verste ster
1978^ⓘTranslated by Roberta Rambelli	Italian	L'ultima stella
1978^ⓘTranslated by Lore Straßl	German	Objekt Lambda
1986^ⓘTranslated by Thomas Görden	German	Sternenfall

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Farthest Star	1975-02-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Ballantine Books	0-345-24330-7	C$1.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	246	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Philip Perlman
Farthest Star	1975-02-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Ballantine Books	0-345-24330-7	$1.50^?$: US dollar	246	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Philip Perlman
Farthest Star	1976-02-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Pan Books	0-330-24639-9	£0.60^?£: UK pound	188+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bob Layzell
De verste ster	1977-00-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Scala (Scala SF)	90-6221-541-6		239	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Gordon C. Davies
L'ultima stella	1978-04-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #74)		Lit 2,500^?Lit: Italian lira	ii+ 168	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Franco Storchi
Objekt Lambda	1978-07-25	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch #303)	TTB303	DM 3.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	161	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Peter Jones
Farthest Star: The Saga of Cuckoo	1983-02-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-30700-3	$2.75^?$: US dollar	250	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David B. Mattingly
Farthest Star: The Saga of Cuckoo	1983-02-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-30700-3	C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	250	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David B. Mattingly
Farthest Star: The Saga of Cuckoo	1983-07-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-30700-3	$2.75^?$: US dollar	251	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	David B. Mattingly
The Saga of Cuckoo	1983-09-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Nelson Doubleday / SFBC	6228	$5.50^?$: US dollar	434	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Kevin Johnson
Der endlose Planet	1986-04-00	Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe ( Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller^?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Bestseller #22089)	3-404-22089-7	DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	469+ [5]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Chris Moore

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Reviews

Review by Monte Davis (1975) in The Science Fiction Review, March 1975
Review [Dutch] by Annemarie van Ewijck [as by Annemarie Kindt] (1977) in Holland-SF 1977, #3