title: Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
author:  Richard Cohen 
description: An amazing tour de force, a grand history, and an irresistable account of an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target.Sylvia Nasar, author of <i>A Beautiful Mind</i><br /><br />A quite extraordinary book, which I absolutely loved. Its a fabulously provoking history of discoveries, dreams, and delusions. I shall bask in its shimmering digressions, crazy cross-references, and dizzy overviews for many moons.Richard Holmes, author of <i>The Age of Wonder</i><br /><br />Remarkably comprehensive and engrossing . . . Apollo, Ra, Inti or Huitzilopochtliall would rock with delight at Cohens sweeping endeavor.<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (starred review)<br /><br />A firework of a book . . . sprinkled throughout with such glittery delights.<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /><i></i><br />On every single page there is something utterly fascinating.Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials<br /><br />[Full of] playfulness and jam-packed lyricism.<i>The Boston Globe</i>
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  A Science Fiction Book Club Selection
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **BROTHERS**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **_C. J. Cherryh_**
  
  
  
  
  
  **DAW**
  
  
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  **DONALD A. WOLLHEIM,**
  
  
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  1301 Avenue of the Americas
  
  
  
  
  
  New York, N. Y.10019
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
  _Endymion_ died soundlessly, a man-made star that
  
  
  glowed and quickly winked out of existence.
  
  
    
    
  
  Kurt Morgan watched her until there was no more left to
  
  
  see, eyes fixed to the aft scanners of the capsule. When it
  
  
  was over, he cut to forward view and set his mind on
  
  
  survival.
  
  
  
  
  
  There had been eighty men and women on
  
  
  _Endymion,_ seventy-nine of them now reduced to dust
  
  
  and vapor with the ship, indistinguishable from its
  
  
  remains. Two minutes to sunward was another cloud that had
  
  
  been the enemy, another hundred individuals, the elements
  
  
  that had been life from a score of worlds borne still on
  
  
  collision course, destroyer and destroyed.
  
  
  
  
  
  No report of the encounter woul