The Distance Between Stars


The book cover for THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STARS: A woman stretches up toward the moon. The vertical text reads, The Distance Between Stars, Stephen Cavitt.

Available 2024 in print, ebook, audiobook, and podcast versions.

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Prologue:

After Earth, a lot of people wrote histories of the fall. The Und landings and the alien wars. The burning cities and refugee camps. And the UN fleet, 81 colony ships launched toward Alpha Centauri while the ashes settled below.

By the time the colonists left the solar system, the fleet broadcast television shows and poems and even children’s books about our near-extinction. Creativity is funny that way: it can’t sit still, even on an interstellar ship racing toward uncertain stars.

But in the beginning, as the survivors crowded onto the ships, it was just one journalism student with a busted iPhone and a broken heart, talking to the heroes and victims of the fall.

In the first documentary from space, narrator Niquish Fromer interviews her shipmates to save their stories for posterity…if anyone survives.