O Escuro Além das Estrelas por Frank M. Robinson . O livro tem uma página wikipedia . Ganhou um Prêmio Lambda Literary para gay SF / F. Aqui está a sinopse da capa traseira da edição de bolso de 1992 Tor :
TO SEEK THE STARS
IS MANKIND'S DESTINY
—BUT ONLY ONE MAN
KNOWS WHEN TO RETURN!
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien lifeforms—without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space, into a rich new region of stars. The ship's captain—immortal, obsessed—refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark—or destroy them all trying.
Only Sparrow, a young crewman uncertain of his own past, can stand against the captain and turn the ship around. But can even he resist the lure and the challenge of . . .
The Dark Beyond the Stars