Project Gutenberg 2020-11-22 Public domain in the USA. 118 Coppel, Alfred 1921 2004 Gilman, Robert Cham Marin, A. C. Coppel, Alfredo José de Arana-Marini Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Galaxan, Sol Vestal, Herman B. 1916 2007 Vestal, H. B. (Herman B.) Vestal, Herman Beeson Beeson The Starbusters Produced from Planet Stories Summer 1949 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Starbusters" by Alfred Coppel, Jr. is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The book explores themes of space travel and encounters with alien intelligences, as it chronicles the exploits of a crew aboard the aging warship T.R.S. Cleopatra. These characters navigate complex situations involving military orders and technological innovations all while threading relationships among them." The storyline follows Commander David Strykalski and his crew as they are unexpectedly assigned to the experimental Project Warp, intended to turn their ship into a hyper-ship capable of interstellar travel. As tensions rise due to an impending alien invasion by the warlike Eridans, the crew must confront their fears and loyalties while preparing for battle. After a harrowing encounter in an alien cosmos, where the very rules of physics seem altered, they discover that their ship's existence is a precarious balance of destruction and survival. Ultimately, they devise a bold plan to transport a contraterrene planetoid back into their own space as a weapon against the Eridan group-mind, leading to explosive and thought-provoking consequences that challenge their understanding of life, morality, and existence in the universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 77.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories War stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 70415 2025-06-25T08:43:37.551716 text/html 46844 2024-10-18T08:30:30 text/html 475249 2025-06-25T08:43:39.436746 application/epub+zip 474078 2025-06-25T08:43:37.960689 application/epub+zip 91425 2025-06-25T08:43:37.728742 application/epub+zip 515247 2025-06-25T08:43:40.716742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507459 2025-06-25T08:43:39.236693 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 125132 2022-09-28T19:11:52.675870 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 63533 2023-09-27T09:01:07.077153 text/plain 43699 2024-10-18T08:30:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17326 2025-06-25T08:43:40.835672 application/rdf+xml 28038 2025-06-25T08:43:37.825692 image/jpeg 5244 2025-06-25T08:43:37.776707 image/jpeg 408618 2025-06-25T08:43:37.565770 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia