 Steven Barnes's novelization of "Far Beyond the Stars" partners with Greg Cox's "" (Volume Two) to tell us that the story "Far Beyond the Stars"—and, by extension, all of "Star Trek" itself—is the creation of 1950s writer Benny Russell.The book "Cloud Atlas" (later adapted into a film by The Wachowkis and Tom Tykwer) consisted of six interlinked stories nested inside each other in a Russian doll fashion.The first story (that of Adam Ewing in the 1850s befriending an escaped slave) is interrupted halfway through and revealed to be part of a journal being read by composer Robert Frobisher in 1930s Belgium.