Sliding Void

DESCRIPTIONCaptain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems.She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer.And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world.Unfortunately for Lana, the problems she doesn't know about are even more dangerous. In fact, they just might be enough to destroy Lana's rickety but much-loved vessel, the Gravity Rose, and jettison her and her crew into the void without a spacesuit.But there's one thing you can never tell an independent space trader. That's the odds...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>REVIEWSPraise for Stephen Hunt's novels:'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'- TOM HOLT'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'- DAILY MAIL'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN'Studded with invention.'-THE INDENDENT'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement… a wonderful escapist yarn!'- INTERZONE'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.'-RT BOOK REVIEWS'A curious part-future blend.'- KIRKUS REVIEWS'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'- THE TIMES'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'- TIME OUT'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.'- SFX MAGAZINE'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.'- SF REVU>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORMATNovella - part 1 of a continuing, linked series.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE SERIES SO FAR...Part 1 - Sliding VoidPart 2 - Transference StationPart 3 is coming soon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AGE ADVISORYAge 15+ - mild violence and language.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...Douglas AdamsNeal AsherIain M. BanksJack CampbellDavid DrakeOrson Scott CardJames S.A. CoreyEvan CurriePeter F. HamiltonRic LockeDan SimmonsCharles StrossDavid Weber>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GENRESScience fiction (space opera)Adventure (scifi)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stephen Hunt is a fantasy and science fiction author who lives in Spain and the UK. He is best known for his best-selling Jackelian fantasy series of novels from HarperCollins, also the publisher of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in the UK.The Jackelian world is a fantasy adventure set in a far-future Earth where the passage of time has erased almost all memory of our current world from history. Electricity is now unreliable and classed as a dark power, with many of the nations of the world existing at a Victorian level of development and relying on steam-power, mechanical nanotechnology and biotechnology to survive and prosper.It is a world of strange creatures, flashing blades, steammen servants, airship battles and high adventure.Each novel is written as a stand-alone work, but share the same world and many of the same characters who criss-cross between the novels (a technique shared with fellow British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series).Foreign language and international editions of the six novels of the Jackelian series have been sold to Tor Books (USA), Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China).Stephen ma

Sliding Void (Book 1 of the Sliding Void science fiction series)DESCRIPTIONCaptain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world.Unfortunately for Lana, the problems she doesn't know about are even more dangerous. In fact, they just might be enough to destroy Lana's rickety but much-loved vessel, the Gravity Rose, and jettison her and her crew into the void without a spacesuit.But there's one thing you can never tell an independent space trader. That's the odds... ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C.S. Lewis. REVIEWSPraise for Stephen Hunt's novels:'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'- TOM HOLT'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'- DAILY MAIL'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN'Studded with invention.'-THE INDEPENDENT'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement… a wonderful escapist yarn!'- INTERZONE'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.'-RT BOOK REVIEWS'A curious part-future blend.'- KIRKUS REVIEWS'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'- THE TIMES'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'- TIME OUT'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.'- SFX MAGAZINE'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.'- SF REVU'Readers will be entertained and captivated.'- BOOKLISTFORMATNovella - part 1 of a continuing, linked series.THE SERIES SO FAR...Part 1 - Sliding Void.Part 2 - Transference Station.Part 3 - Red Sun Bleeding.Also available as a combined omnibus edition: 'Void All The Way Down'.

TRANSFERENCE STATION (Book two in the 'Sliding Void' series)DESCRIPTIONAre things finally looking up for Captain Lana Fiveworlds? She's managed to reach what passes for civilisation in the wild border systems of the Edge - Transference Station - the largest trading hub in the free worlds. With her ramshackle starship, the Gravity Rose, safely docked, she's now desperately searching for a cargo to stave off bankruptcy.Lana's crew needs paying - including the amorous barbarian prince she rescued from a failed colony world. But her crew have other priorities: the ship's android, Zeno, is distracted by terrible secrets from his past, while her alien navigator, Polter, runs into trouble indulging his religious fervour.If that wasn't enough, there's a deal available... but only from the dodgiest broker in a thousand planets. With rival starship captains looking to sabotage Lana for good, and a dangerous mission to a mysterious planet which is far more than the lies she's been spun, things can only get worse from here on in.Lana Fiveworlds and her crew of misfits are still sliding void, just, but for how much longer?Sometimes, the brown stuff piles up so high you need antigravity thrusters to fly over it.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>REVIEWSPraise for Stephen Hunt's novels:'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.'- TOM HOLT'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.'- DAILY MAIL'Compulsive reading for all ages.'- GUARDIAN'Studded with invention.'-THE INDENDENT'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement… a wonderful escapist yarn!'- INTERZONE'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.'-RT BOOK REVIEWS'A curious part-future blend.'- KIRKUS REVIEWS'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.'- THE TIMES'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.'- TIME OUT'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.'- SFX MAGAZINE'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.'- SF REVU>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORMATNovella - part 2 of a continuing, linked series.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE SERIES SO FAR...Part 1 - Sliding VoidPart 2 - Transference StationPart 3 is coming soon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AGE ADVISORYAge 15+ - mild violence and language.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...Douglas AdamsNeal AsherIain M. BanksJack CampbellDavid DrakeOrson Scott CardJames S.A. CoreyEvan CurriePeter F. HamiltonRic LockeDan SimmonsCharles StrossDavid Weber>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GENRESScience fiction (space opera)Adventure (scifi)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stephen Hunt is a fantasy and science fiction author who lives in Spain and the UK. He is best known for his best-selling Jackelian fantasy series of novels from HarperCollins, also the publisher of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in the UK.The Jackelian world is a fantasy adventure set in a far-future Earth where the passage of time has erased almost all memory of our current world from history. Electricity is now unreliable and classed as a dark power, with many of the nations of the world existing at a Victorian level of development and relying on steam-power, mechanical nanotechnology and biotechnology to survive and prosper.It is a world of strange creatures, flashing blades, steammen servants, airship battles and high adventure.Each novel is written as a stand-alone work, but share the same world and many of the same characters who criss-cross between the novels (a technique shared with fellow British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series).Foreign language and international editions of the six novels of the Jackelian serie

Are things finally looking up for Captain Lana Fiveworlds? She's managed to reach what passes for civilisation in the wild border systems of the Edge - Transference Station - the largest trading hub in the free worlds. With her ramshackle starship, the Gravity Rose, safely docked, she's now desperately searching for a cargo to stave off bankruptcy. Lana's crew needs paying - including the amorous barbarian prince she rescued from a failed colony world. But her crew have other priorities: the ship's android, Zeno, is distracted by terrible secrets from his past, while her alien navigator, Polter, runs into trouble indulging his religious fervour. If that wasn't enough, there's a deal available... but only from the dodgiest broker in a thousand planets. With rival starship captains looking to sabotage Lana for good, and a dangerous mission to a mysterious planet which is far more than the lies she's been spun, things can only get worse from here on in. Lana Fiveworlds and her crew of misfits are still sliding void, just, but for how much longer? Sometimes, the brown stuff piles up so high you need antigravity thrusters to fly over it. --------------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C.S. Lewis. --------------- REVIEWS Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels: 'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.' - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT 'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL 'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT 'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement… a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE 'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS 'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT 'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE 'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.' - SF REVU 'Readers will be entertained and captivated.' - BOOKLIST --------------- FORMAT Novella - part 2 of a continuing, linked series. --------------- THE SERIES SO FAR... Novella 1 - Sliding Void. Novella 2 - Transference Station. Novella 3 - Red Sun Bleeding. Also available as a combined omnibus edition: 'Void All The Way Down'. Book 4 - Anomalous Thrust. Book 5. Hell Fleet. Book 6 - Voyage of the Void-Lost --------------- AGE ADVISORY Age 13+ - mild violence and language. --------------- READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS... Douglas Adams Neal Asher Iain M. Banks Jack Campbell David Drake Orson Scott Card James S.A. Corey Evan Currie Peter F. Hamilton Ric Locke Dan Simmons Charles Stross David Weber

It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship 'Gravity Rose'. A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed… that's why the job paid so damn well. But now she's stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only oddly missing miners, but vanished crewmen too. The exiled barbarian prince Calder Durk had disappeared, presumed dragged over the mining camp's laser fence by one of the not-so-pleasant local predators. The skipper may or may not be in love with him, but you can never leave one of your own behind. Lana's android has a bad feeling about the place, and she also has to contend with an arrogant mission leader who is part of humanity's near immortal super-rich ruling class. Things are looking bad, and that was before the space pirates her rivals have paid to put her out of business jumped in-system looking to hijack her ship. Sadly for the crew of the Gravity Rose, matters can get even worse when they discover why nobody's ever survived Abracadabra long enough to put it on the charts. For this is one world with a terrible secret. And it just might be the last one for everyone trapped down on the planet. ---------------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C.S. Lewis. ---------------- REVIEWS Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels: 'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.' - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT 'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL 'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT 'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement… a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE 'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks… affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS 'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT 'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE 'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.' - SF REVU 'Readers will be entertained and captivated.' - BOOKLIST ---------------- FORMAT Novella - part 3 of a continuing, linked series. ---------------- THE SERIES SO FAR... Novella 1 - Sliding Void. Novella 2 - Transference Station. Novella 3 - Red Sun Bleeding. Also available as a combined omnibus edition: 'Void All The Way Down'. Book 4 - Anomalous Thrust. Book 5 - Hell Fleet. Book 6 - Voyage of the Void-Lost ---------------- AGE ADVISORY Age 13+ - mild violence and language. ---------------- READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS... Neal Asher Iain M. Banks Jack Campbell David Drake Orson Scott Card James S.A. Corey

VOID ALL THE WAY DOWN(The Sliding Void Omnibus) This is the Sliding Void Omnibus edition, comprising three novellas: Sliding Void, Transference Station, and Red Sun Bleeding. DESCRIPTION Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world. Unfortunately for Lana, the problems she doesn't know about are even more dangerous. In fact, they just might be enough to destroy Lana's rickety but much-loved vessel, the Gravity Rose, and jettison her and her crew into the void without a spacesuit. But there's one thing you can never tell an independent space trader. That's the odds... ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C.S. Lewis. REVIEWS Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels: 'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT 'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL 'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT 'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT 'A ripping yarn … the story pounds along… constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked… the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE FORMAT Omnibus - Includes three previously novellas. Part 1 - Sliding Void Part 2 - Transference Station Part 3 - Red Sun Bleeding

Captain Lana Fiveworlds might be flying with the same motley crew of misfits, but her problems are all-new. Lana believes that a demanding and difficult client on board her beloved starship - the Gravity Rose - is the sum of her woes. But that was until she has to emergency ditch inside a star system which holds a full range of deadly secrets. There are the murderous intentions of the local government with its slave-owning aristocracy to contend with, not to mention the ruthless rebels trying to overthrow the regime. And then there's the moon-sized unknown alien vessel that jumps into the system every few centuries, along with the chance to claim untold riches. Or the chance to die, well, really quite horribly. With Calder, Zeno, Skrat, Polter and the chief still helping Lana, there's the smallest of chances the crew might survive. But as every spacer knows, it's not where you jump into hyperspace that counts. It's only ever where you end up!

Something shockingly scary this way comes? Commander Adella Vega of the Alliance navy - aka Hell-Fleet - is stuck at the dog-end of the galaxy on punishment duty with the Fleet's losers, thieves, and pedantic pen-pushers. Adella thought that was bad enough. Until large portions of her sector just went dark. Is something big, bad, and particularly nasty now heading her way? And what does her predicament have to do with the free-trader captain Lana Fiveworlds, her rickety ship, Gravity Rose - and its misfit crew? Sadly, all their troubles are about to collide and multiply in the most horrific manner since the Vela Supernova Remnant detonated. Sometimes, the future's so bright you better bring lead-lined shades ... and a rail-cannon or three. Because Earth's best space opera series just met the page-turning universe of military science fiction!

When Captain Lana Fiveworlds seizes on a lucrative contract to fly a rough-and-ready bunch of grave robbers between the worlds of long-extinct civilisations, she's expecting a nice easy ride for her misfit crew on board the starship Gravity Rose. After all, those unlucky perished alien species died of climate change, atomic wars, comet strikes, plagues, and mass solar flare ejections thousands, if not millions of years ago. So, what can go wrong? Plunder a few failed planets for priceless abandoned antiques and lost technologies and make out like an interstellar bandit! Sadly, the karma of the universe has other ideas - and easy, it surely ain't. When their troubles slowly mount, Lana, Calder, Zeno, and the other crew members battle for far more than their lives. The ultimate cost could be more than the captain - or her dear friends and family - can bear.