Where All Things End: Part 1

By DAVID HILL

I read from a disc once how it took the first astronauts three days to fly from Earth to its Moon. Our Star-Reacher Bellatrix can cover that distance in two hours.

The same disc said that the first human mission to another planet - Mars - needed almost eight months. The ion-drive engines of Bellatrix can fly it from Earth to Mars in twenty days.

But Bellatrix will never fly from Earth to its Moon, or to Mars. Those planets and their Sun are far behind us.
Our Star-Reacher is skimming towards the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, and the great blue-white star after which our ship is named.

It's just as well Bellatrix isn't flying to Earth. There's hardly any room left on that crowded planet, especially for a Star-Reacher like ours which holds 80,000 people, and takes nearly three days to walk across.

Publisher: Puffin

Price: $16.95

Age group: 8-14 years


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