The Stars Within Reach is a book about the founding of the first Alpha Centauri colony.
The book is considered to be a classic. Wheeler Stinson read The Stars Within Reach when he was a teenager. (DS9 novel: Ascendance)
In 2385, Alicia Flynn was reading The Stars Within Reach for history class in the school aboard the USS Robinson. Flynn found the book boring, although Kasidy Yates hoped she might one day like it. Yates herself considered The Stars Within Reach to be a wonderful book. (ST - The Fall novel: Revelation and Dust)