The Iron Star
- Form
- Novelette
- Year
- 1988
Publication history
- 1987: The Universe, Bantam Mass market paperback
- 1988: Amazing Stories January 1988, Magazine
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1993: The Secret Sharer (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 2), Grafton Trade paperback, 395 pp.
- 1999: Thèbes aux cent portes, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, 317 pp., in French as L'étoile de fer
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise On-line
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, 768 pp., in French as L'étoile de fer
Blurb
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Comments
The corporate starship Ben-wah Maru is investigating a star system for its sponsors, IBM and Toshiba. The system consists of a neutron star and companion black hole. Exactly what the owners hope to accomplish is not clear to the ship's CEO, but he intends to fulfil his mission—to retrieve a bit of matter from the neutron star. The sudden appearance of an alien spaceship in the system is an unwanted interruption. Once contact is established, it becomes apparent just how alien the Nine Sparg are. They seem incredibly advanced in some respects, but oddly ignorant in others.
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