Books in Star Quest series

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Originally published in 1978, 1979, and 1981, Terrance Dicks's three Star Quest novels are now available for the first time in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Three young cousins get caught up in galactic events when two battling UFOs land near Stonehenge. For Jan, Kevin, and Anna it is only the beginning of their thrilling adventures. In Spacejack, the young friends meet Tell, Osar, and Garm—agents for the League, an alliance of intelligent races from across the galaxy—and come up against the Kaldor, who believe that only humans have the right to rule. Roboworld sees the cousins crashland on an asteroid infested with an army of killer robots. And in Terrorsaur!, Jan, Kevin, and Anna must search for their new friends who have gone missing while on patrol.

An action-packed and hilarious QWST begins in this graphic novel based on the popular tabletop game as the Starcadia universe is expanding for the first time with all new stories.Out in the Frontier, the toughest jobs in the galaxy are handled by Freelance Adventuring Crews, and a disillusioned delivery boy known as Starkid dreams of captaining his own team earning a living completing lucrative but dangerous quests set up by the Starcadia Alliance. When his best friend Digits encourages him to recruit a crew, he sends out a call for the best he can get... at his local Stardollars coffee shop.Also contains three exclusive scenarios for the Starcadia Quest game! Expanding the world of Starcadia Quest, the latest stand-alone game in the Arcadia Quest family where players fight alien monsters and each other, find new gear, explore the far reaches of space, and do their best to not become alien chow.

[Read by Stefan Rudnicki]Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the last installment in the Star Quest Trilogy.Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it.A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it's possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them.The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they'll also have to protect themselves.