The book ‘Out of the Black’ is written by Evan Currie. ‘Out of the Black’ is the 4th book in the Odyssey One series. The story is about Captain Eric Weston and the wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth’s greatest guardian. The book analyzes humanity’s journey to the stars and Drasin’s determination that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos.