FuturesPast Editions ebook release of final three ebooks containing the "Star
Man" saga
Includes never-before-published 12th Star Man novel!
Genesis of the Star Man
The saga of the Star Man began in
1978 when Stuart J. Byrne, a multilingual engineer and longtime pulpster who had written
for Amazing, Imagination, and Other
Worlds, was hired to help translate and polish some of the later Ace
reprints of the fabled Perry Rodan books. Two years later, when the German
rights holder decided to cancel the American license due to declining sales,
Byrne was asked by Master Publications to come up with his own endlessly unfolding
cosmic adventure of the Perry Rodan type. The result was a 12-volume science
fictional space opera unlike any other.
Unfortunately, only the first 11
were published by Master Publications. The 12th volume remained unpublished
until Feb. 2014, when the concluding Star Man novel, "The Second
Empire", was issued by Futures Past Editions in The Sixth Star Man Omnibus.
All Six Omnibus eBooks in Byrne's Star Man Saga Include Two Complete Novels and Sell for just $2.99.
What is the Star Man Saga About?
In the far future, Earth, Mars, and
Venus are ruled by the iron hand of dictatorship, as is humanity's first extrasolar
colony on Alpha Centauri. An accident sends modern-day astronaut Steven
Germaine to the future and to the colony, where the inhabitants revive him. Unknown
to him, Germaine has survived his trip through time due to unique abilities
only he possesses, and soon he becomes the centerpiece in a struggle between
the colonists, the dictatorship, and hierarchies of aliens whose existence no
one even suspects. When he is forced to land on an unexplored world of Alpha
Centauri, Germaine's unique abilities help him overcome the effects of its
heavy gravity—and, with the help of an advanced civilization hiding there, they
also help him to become a "cross-over": one of the Supermen of Alpha.
But suspicion and counter-plots make him a catalyst in an interstellar
revolution, leading to wide-ranging cosmic adventures that build his legend as
the Star Man.
The cosmic exploits of Steve
Germaine in this series include: capturing a Cosmium-powered interstellar
warship; leading the Alpha revolution; riding a comet to Luna; raiding the
Cosmium vaults on Mars; finding the lost laboratories of the 23rd century
"Magicians" (read: mutants); creating a Cosmium-powered inversion drive;
being lost in a negative universe; discovering the awesome Nebula Worlds; falling
victim to a time trap, and more.
Star Man's interstellar
saga is filled with memorable characters, such as his deadly
nemesis Vincent Cardwell, empire builder, and Cardwell's mysterious mutant daughter,
Anne Cardwell; Steve Germaine's staunch
future companion, Danny Duncan, a simple farm boy who becomes the leader of a
revolution; "Si" the human cyborg; Alphie,
the batrachian savant with a child mind and super I.Q.; great Karmax, the
Minotaur-like wizard-creator of the Temonoids; the sacred Zraal, the oldest
star race; the Kosmikons, Dark Force hordes from Beyond—and many more.
The Star Man series is epic in scope and a prime example of
mind-bending, thought-variant science fiction. Alien
worlds and civilizations, negative and alternate-time universes, cosmic
purposes, cosmic threats . . . The Star Man novels are classic space opera by
one of the original masters of the genre.
The Star Man
Omnibuses are now available as ebooks at only $2.99, for Kindle and .epub
reading devices, at Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, Kobo and iTunes.
They will be published as
paperbacks in the autumn of 2014.
When is the paperback versions coming out?
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