Voyage of the Void-Lost
(eBook)

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.---------------ABOUT THE BOOK'Voyage of the Void-Lost' is the 6th book in Sliding Void series. It's a completely stand-alone adventure, not directly linked to the first five books.---------------ABOUT THE AUTHORStephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other science fiction authors, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury.---------------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 an exciting tale.'- SF REVU---------------FORMATFull novel - a stand-alone adventure.Book 1 - Sliding VoidBook 2 - Transference StationBook 3 - Red Sun BleedingBook 4 - Anomalous ThrustBook 5 - Hell FleetBook 6 - Voyage of the Void-Lost---------------AGE ADVISORYAge 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. 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 Bri