The sea is full of stars (1999)
The sea is full of stars is a 1999 american science fiction book written by Jack L. Chalker.
Three passengers board an elite starship bound for the Realm: Ming, Ari, and Angel, each expecting nothing more than a luxurious passage. Instead they fall into the orbit of Jeremiah Wong Kincaid, a man consumed by one purpose. Kincaid hunts Josich Conqueror Hadun, a tyrant whose cruelty has scarred worlds across the galaxy. The chase drags the travelers past demon-haunted territories and strange races, into a cyberworld where godlike machines treat humans as pieces on a board. Jack L. Chalker sets it all against his sprawling Well World, where the water hexes hide a threat larger than any single tyrant.
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What is The sea is full of stars about?
Three passengers board an elite starship bound for the Realm: Ming, Ari, and Angel, each expecting nothing more than a luxurious passage. Instead they fall into the orbit of Jeremiah Wong Kincaid, a man consumed by one purpose. Kincaid hunts Josich Conqueror Hadun, a tyrant whose cruelty has scarred worlds across the galaxy. The chase drags the travelers past demon-haunted territories and strange races, into a cyberworld where godlike machines treat humans as pieces on a board. Jack L. Chalker sets it all against his sprawling Well World, where the water hexes hide a threat larger than any single tyrant.
When was The sea is full of stars published?
The sea is full of stars was published in 1999.
Who made The sea is full of stars?
The sea is full of stars was written by Jack L. Chalker.
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- Companion guide: The Well World: Jack L. Chalker's Planet of 1,560 Species
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Fans of galaxy-spanning pursuit and endless alien variety have good company. Farscape follows a lone human tumbling through a cosmos of strange species and old grudges, much like Kincaid's voyage. Mass Effect scales the stakes up to a threat that dwarfs any single warlord, hunt and all. Babylon 5 shares the taste for tangled interstellar politics and races forced to share close quarters.
More stops on Chalker's Well World tour
The Sea Is Full of Stars keeps one foot on Chalker's Well World even while its plot roams far past the hexes, so the natural next stop is the saga itself: Gods, Midnight, Twilight, Ghost and Exiles at the Well of Souls, plus The Return of Nathan Brazil, all share that same planet-sized engine remaking species at its borders.
Ancient machine intelligences that outgrew their makers
Kincaid's chase drags his passengers into a cyberworld run by godlike machines, and these sit in the same territory: Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire upon the Deep imagine intelligences that outgrow biology entirely, Rendezvous with Rama and 2010 both center on an artifact too advanced to fully explain, and The Armageddon Inheritance wakes an ancient weapon nobody can control.
Space operas that are really one long manhunt
Chalker builds The Sea Is Full of Stars around one man's single-minded hunt for a galaxy-scarring tyrant, and these keep that same shape: Babylon 5 and Farscape both follow crews dragged into someone else's vendetta, while Pandora's Star, Honor Among Enemies and On Basilisk Station turn a manhunt into a full-blown interstellar campaign.