Black Star Passes
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Black Star Passes
Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar system that passes close to our own. These three stories (Piracy Preferred, Solarite, and The Black Star Passes) were originally p...
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Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Chapter 6 & Epilogue
"Taj Lamor, remember what I tell you. If you win this awful war--you lose. As will our race. Only if you lose will you win." -- Tordos Gar
Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Chapter 4 & 5
"For defense we'll have to depend on armor as heavy as we can make and still remain within the bounds of practical construction. I don't believe we'll...
Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Chapter 3
"...we'll have a bigger store of knowledge before this war is over--if we have anything at all. It's possible that man may lose knowledge, life, his p...
Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Chapter 2
"The invaders may be behind one of those big engines, quite unaware of us. If they're there, and they see us, they'll be ready to fight. Now remember,...
Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Chapter 1
"...I wonder if there might not be some of the crew alive in there? If there are, it seems to me that they'll let us know shortly that they're around....
Book 3 "The Black Star Passes" - Prologue
"You cannot see--you cannot see. You would start that struggle all over again!" -- Tordos Gar
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 8
"That's their surprise! They're ready far ahead of the time we expected! If all that armada gets in the air, we're done!" -- Richard Arcot
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 7
"It'll be a beam of power that will cause all molecules in its path to move at right angles to it...That means that no matter how big the thing is, we...
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 6
"I think I can understand the secret of all that power, and it's not so different from the Solarite. It, too, draws its power from the sun, though in...
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 5 Part 2
"Dad, these Kaxorians have planes capable of far more than a thousand miles an hour in the air. You must start at once on a fleet of molecular motion...
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 5 Part 1
"That you should come here at this particular time is almost beyond belief--a practically impossible coincidence--but perhaps there is more than coinc...
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 4
"We may be able to find friends here more quickly if we aid one side or the other in the very lively battle going on there. Before we go any further,...
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapter 3
"We're getting near a planet. This is the third meteor we've met since we were more than a million miles from Earth." -- Richard Arcot
Book 2 "Solarite" - Chapters 1 & 2
"I love to come out here and look at those cold, pinpoint lights; they seem to draw me--the lure of other worlds. I've always had a sense of unfulfill...
Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 4
"I'm Wade--help if you can. Am in an orbit and can't get out. Fuel reserve gage stuck, and used all my rockets. No more power. I am running out of com...
Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 3
"I never began to let out the power of this thing! What a ship! When these are made commercially, we'll have to use about one horsepower generators in...
Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 2
"Dad seems to think the machine has possibilities! I believe it will antiquate all types of airplanes, prop or jet. It's a direct utilization of the e...
Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 1
"The other day several men came in to charter a plane to San Francisco. It seems they wanted to hire the ship so they could be robbed!" -- Robert More...
Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Prologue
"Piracy! Pirates in the air! In 2126 we have pirates attacking our air lines." -- Field Manager of the San Francisco terminus of The Transcontinenta...
Author's and Reader's Introduction
Reader Scott D. Farquhar shares John W. Campbell's own Introduction to The Black Star Passes.