Black Hole, The (Vintage Movie Tie-In Paperback) by Alan Dean Foster - Disney Novelization

THE GHOST SHIP 

For five years the crew of the Palomino had ranged through deep space, searching for evidence of alien life -with no result. Then, their mission almost at an end, they discovered a giant collapsar-the largest black hole ever encountered-and, drifting perilously near it, was the long-lost legendary starship Cygnus.

Incredibly, the ship was not a lifeless hulk. Its commander, the genius who had designed the Cygnus and planned its epic voyage, still survived, served by a horde of mechanical slaves. But Commander Reinhardt had no desire to be rescued.

He had a rendezvous with the incredibly hellish forces of the collapsar-and he planned to take the Palomino's crew along on his doomed adventure.