When an electromagnetic storm accidentally arms intelligent Bomb #20, the crew suddenly has only a short time to convince it not to detonate. To prevent themselves from going even madder, they often engage in trivial pursuits like chasing the alien mascot around the ship, target shooting, playing music and practical jokes, or just watching the universe go by. Their captain is dead and kept in cryogenic sleep leaving commanding officer, Lieutenant Doolittle, Sergeant Pinback, Corporal Boiler, and Talby to keep a rapidly failing space ship afloat.
And thus, Centipede Press presents to you this Legacy edition novelization by Alan, filled with wit, philosophy, and an alien named Beachballus Carpenterbannoni.įor twenty years, the crew of the Dark Star has endured mind-numbing boredom as they reflexively continue to fulfill their mission to keep the galaxy safe by destroying unstable planets. It introduced Alan Dean Foster to the novelization world, where he would dominate with bestselling books for the next few decades.īeing a visionary and future Grandmaster of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Alan crafted a novel that plays in the cracks where the screenplay couldn’t go, focusing on the theater of the mind which the space-mad men often played in. But just as comedic is Alan Dean Foster’s novelization, first published in 1974 by Ballantine books, which was so popular it went through a half dozen printings in its first six years. John Carpenter’s classic USC student film has been rightly praised as a classic of comedic science fiction.
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