Run to the Stars
Earth in the thirtieth century is a bleak place – a creeping self-righteous puritanism is abroad, and one official is only too willing to betray his neighbour for advancement in the State hierarchy.
Digging too deep into a bureaucratic cover-up, Mark Bellamy, Chief of Security, finds himself accused of murder and treason. This leaves him no choice but to
RUN TO THE STARS
Along with thirty thousand others, he will leave on Earth's Second Colony ship. It will mean twenty-two years of space travel with no definite goal at the end – but Mark is willing to take the risk. For there is no alternative. He must soar into the stars, forging a new world and an unknown destiny – or else perish at the hands bureaucratic assassins...
Michael Scott Rohan
Michael Scott Rohan (1951-2018) was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.
He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
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