Void All the Way Down

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.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>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 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ABOUT THE AUTHORStephen 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 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 an exciting tale.'- SF REVU>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORMATOmnibus - Includes three previously novellas.Part 1 - Sliding VoidPart 2 - Transference StationPart 3 - Red Sun Bleeding>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AGE ADVISORYAge 13+ - 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>>>>>>>>>>>& 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 b