Tight, clean, flat, square, crisp and sharp book in DJ with modest wear and nicks. BCE, first printing thus with code Q39. Best ships first. Properly, an anthology of connected stories, often viewed as a novel because it reads as one, much like The Martian Chronicles. These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: A headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race. A young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought he'd lost. The crew of an exploration ship who must plead for the human race to avert an interstellar war.