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Beyond the Stars: Quest for Tomorrow #4 Hardcover – January 26, 2000

by William Shatner (Author)

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Book 4 of 5 in the Quest for Tomorrow Series

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Jim Endicott is not Jim Endicott anymore.

In Step into Chaos, he became one with the Omega Point, and used its awesome intelligence to alter his own past. In that alternate Universe, he didn't kill the man he had always thought of as his father. He saved him.

But does the alternate Jim remember the old Jim? Only dimly aware of his vast Omega powers, Jim "Evanston" must deal with a heartbreaking new revelation: Carl and Tabitha, the "parents" he saved, are not really his parents at all! Who are they? And why are they sending him away--as far away as it is possible to send anyone?

Jim finds himself aboard the Out Beyond, a world-sized intergalactic starship, crammed with tens of millions of misfits, outlaws, and eccentrics. No longer the golden boy on the fast track to the Space Academy, Jim is friendless and alone--until he meets up with the Stone Cowboys, a deep space street gang that teaches him hard-earned lessons about courage, loyalty--and love, in the fetching form of a "cowgirl" with a faint raspberry smell and the biggest eyes in the known universe.

Jim's new life with the Cowboys and his former Omega destiny seem to have little to do with each other, until a strange new mental illness appears, spreading like wildfire through the Out Beyond. It's called the Rage and it doesn't exactly kill people. It makes them kill others, beginning with the ones they love the most. . . .

In this fourth Quest for Tomorrow novel, famed Star Trek veteran William Shatner continues a bestselling series that is filled with memorable characters, crackles with high-tech action, and is crammed with thought-provoking science fiction ideas and settings. Each carefully researched Quest for Tomorrow adventure is complete with a scientific bibliography designed to assure accuracy, provide technical guidance, and suggest fascinating new directions for young readers to explore.

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From Publishers Weekly

The latest entry in Shatner's Quest for Tomorrow series opens with an explanation that this installment is set in an alternate universe, one in which hero Jim Endicott did not murder his father. To save his son from his enemies this time, Carl Endicott sends teenage Jim off on a multi-generational ship, the Outward Bound, en route to colonize a distant galaxy. Once aboard, Jim loses his cache of gold, and falls in with the "Stone Cowboys," a gang of space street thugs vying for control of the colony ship. Soon, the shrewd Jim is bedding Sam, the sexiest of the Stone Cowgirls, and reluctantly dealing the psychoactive sex drug Heat. Suspicious of Heat's side effects, which cause users to turn homicidal, Jim and the Cowboys learn that Ur-Barrba, their alien drug connection,has supplied the drug to stop the Outward Bound in its mission. Jim and his buddies storm Ur-Barrba's starship, and trick its occupants into eating food laced with Heat. Afterwards, the former gang members depart the colony ship aboard Ur-Barrba's rig, which they've commandeered and renamed the Endeavour, while turning their attention toward selecting a captain and setting off on, presumably, a series of new adventures. While the first three installments of Shatner's saga centered on the evolution of humanity into a "superbrain," his current offering of a more pedestrian tale with its "just say no" theme and gratuitous swinging space sex never quite reaches warp speed. (Feb.)
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The fourth of Shatner's efforts to ape Heinlein's classic sf juveniles is set in the alternate universe of Step into Chaos. Instead of killing his putative father, Carl Endicott, Jim Endicott has killed the SWAT team sent to capture him. He still carries the genome vital to linking the human race together in an organic computer, and the stakes of success are high, because humanity is no third-class power but an aggressively expanding empire. Fortunately, such imperial expansion offers Jim a safe way off Wolfsbane, and beyond reach of the authorities, aboard the intergalactic colony ship Outward Bound. On it, he falls in with a Prole-born gang of drug dealers, wrestles with his conscience, falls in love, survives gang wars and the suspicion that he is a police spy, and finally discovers that the drugs are being supplied by aliens to sabotage the ship's voyage. When that discovery is revealed, a shipboard revolt results in Prole control, and Jim is one of the new leaders. The action is speedy, and the ship is a well-drawn setting, though one wonders at what point the new universe is going to be linked to the old one. One also suspects that the series' new setting and situation are a Shatner device for scaling back Jim's powers and accomplishments, thereby putting some suspense back into the fights he gets into. If it is, it is successful. Moreover, Jim is more sympathetic, approachable, and real than before, though he faces no less danger and difficulty. Roland Green

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Product details

Series: Quest for Tomorrow (Book 4)
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Harper Voyager; US ed. edition (January 26, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061051187
ISBN-13: 978-0061051180
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,124,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7627 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction
- #32804 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Science Fiction
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Different story line and universe than the first two in ...

September 25, 2015

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Different story line and universe than the first two in the series. Shatner should have just started a new series to avoid continuity issues.

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Arthur W Jordin

January 14, 2003

Format: Hardcover

Beyond the Stars (2000) is the fourth SF novel in the Quest for Tomorrow series. In the previous volume, Jim Endicott has used the power of the Omega Point to change the past. In this branch of the multiverse, his mother does not alter his DNA and, while still pursued by Delta and attacked by Commander Steele, his misaimed shot does not kill Carl as in the other timeline.

Jim, Carl and Tabitha all survive the attack, but Carl is badly wounded and Tabitha is in shock. They flee from the cabin to Hannaport on the other side of the mountain. There Jim is put aboard a freighter headed for the Outward Bound, a colony ship. Carl and Tabitha go elsewhere to lure away Delta's forces. On the Outward Bound, Jim becomes friends with the leader of the Stone Cowboys gang and more than friends with Samantha, a Stone Cowgirl.

Jim is alone, in a strange place and surrounded by strangers, with different ways and customs. For the first time, he must fend for himself, make his own path in the world. He has help from the Stone Cowboys, yet he must learn to meet their expectations or they will turn on him. At the same time, he wants to be true to the behavior and beliefs instilled by Carl and Tabitha.

This novel presents a new story of another Jim Endicott. It explores other facets of the ConFed society and other avenues for a young adult. Recommended for Shatner fans and anyone who enjoys young adult SF stories.

-Arthur W. Jordin

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September 13, 2000

Format: Hardcover

Though there may be a few moans and groans about yet another Shatner novel I must say this one was somewhat riveting though his last book made my head hurt. Perhaps someday Shatner will seal Endicott's fate and give him a good end (within the next two, hopefully.)

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A surprisingly good book for its length!

January 11, 2002

Format: Mass Market Paperback

I just finished Beyond The Stars I was pleasantly surprised by the story. I have always like William Shatner books and this was an excellent addition to his collection. The ending did leave something to be desired but I can't wait for the next so I can see what happens to Jim Endicott.

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