New ebook edition includes never-before-published 12th Star Man novel!
Who and What is Star Man?
The saga of the Star Man began in 1978 when the late Stuart J. Byrne, a
multilingual engineer and science fiction pulp magazine author who had
written for Amazing, Imagination, and Other Worlds, was hired to help translate
and polish some of the later Ace reprints of the fabled Perry Rodan books. When Ace books was sold to a new publishing company, the new
editors were not sympathetic to the Perry Rhodan books and dropped the series.
The literary agent then representing the Rhodan series in
the U. S., Forrest J Ackerman, had long been a fan and supporter of the books
and tried to establish a company of his own to continue bringing them out in
the U. S., and Stuart J. Byrne was hired to translate them. Unfortunately, the cost of publication and the somewhat
amateurish look of the Master Publications Perry Rhodan books resulted in
declining sales. As a result, the German rights holders decided to cancel the
American license.
When that happened Ackerman asked Byrne, who had written
many intergalactic adventures for U.S. pulp magazines in the 1950s, to create his own endlessly unfolding
cosmic adventure – one that would appeal to the same type of reader.
The result was a 12-volume science fictional space opera
unlike any other.
Unfortunately, only the first 11 were published by Master
Publications – and then it went out of business. The 12th volume remained
unpublished until Feb. 2014, when the concluding Star Man novel, "The
Second Empire", was issued by Futures Past Editions in The Sixth Star Man
Omnibus.
As Published by Futures Past Editions, Byrne's Entire Star
Man Saga Includes:
The First Star Man Omnibus: #1 Supermen of Alpha & #2
Time Window
The Second Star Man Omnibus: #3 Interstellar Mutineers &
#4 The Cosmium Raiders
The Third Star Man Omnibus #5 The World Changer & #6 The
Slaves of Venus
The Fourth Star Man Omnibus: #7 Lost in the Milky Way &
#8 Time Trap
The Fifth Star Man Omnibus: #9 The Centaurians & #10 The
Emperor
The Sixth Star Man Omnibus: #11 The Return of Star Man &
#12 The Second Empire
What is the Star Man Saga About?
In the far future, Earth, Mars, and Venus are ruled by the
iron hand of dictatorship, as is humanity's first extrasolar colony on Alpha
Centauri. An accident sends modern-day astronaut Steven Germaine to the future
and to the colony, where the inhabitants revive him. Unknown to him, Germaine
has
The cosmic exploits of Steve Germaine in this series
include: capturing a Cosmium-powered interstellar warship; leading the Alpha revolution;
riding a comet to Luna; raiding the Cosmium vaults on Mars; finding the lost
laboratories of the 23rd century "Magicians" (read: mutants); creating
a Cosmium-powered inversion drive; being lost in a negative universe; discovering
the awesome Nebula Worlds; falling victim to a time trap, and more.
The interstellar saga of Star Man is filled with memorable
characters, such as Star Man's deadly nemesis Vincent Cardwell, empire builder,
and his mysterious mutant daughter, Anne Cardwell; Steve Germaine's staunch
future companion, Danny Duncan, a simple farm boy who becomes the
The Star Man series is epic in scope and a prime example of
mind-bending, thought-variant science fiction. Alien worlds and civilizations,
negative and alternate-time universes, cosmic purposes, cosmic threats . . .
The Star Man novels are classic space opera by one of the original masters of
the genre.
Now on Sale - only $2.99 for Two Complete Star Man Novels
All six omnibuses are available for Kindle and .epub reading devices, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo
and iTunes.
They will be published as paperbacks in the autumn of 2014.
From FuturesPast Editions
Visit us at FuturesPastEditions.com
Does anyone know if he ever published under the name: STUART JAMES?
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