About this ebook
"I've already read this twice! I read rapidly the first time, because my heart was in my mouth regarding the fate of all these characters." - Customer Review
Solar Rift : 2120 tells two thrilling interconnected tales of realistic science-fiction and cyberpunk espionage, set in the asteroid belt and on Earth a century into the future.
"...The book has superb tension,... illuminating a world so complex, rich, and detailed that you only ever want to catch more glimpses of it." - Customer Review
On Earth, the private investigator and infiltration expert, Raz Kadir, and his business partner, the flamboyant Japanese hacker Namazu, take a job for the up-and-coming Viator Engineering and Logistics company. With their first job ending up as a bumpy ride, things start spiraling out of control when they’re asked to blur the boundaries of legality and morality. Before long, the pair are lost in the murky and deadly world of inter-corporate warfare and need to use all of their cunning in order to keep their freedom.
In the asteroid belt beyond Mars, pilot and navigator Zarina Verma and her two fellow crew-mates are coming to the end of their two-year tour of duty. Responding to problems that automated droneships fail to take care of, the crew encounters a destroyed mining station belonging to their employers, the TKR Corporation. As the mystery unfolds, the mission not only begins to strain their friendship but tests their mettle against an ever-increasing threat.
"An excellent debut." - Customer Review
About the author
Steve Rivers is a thoroughly un-British Englishman. He dislikes tea, hates cricket, and has rather decent teeth. (Although he does adore football)
He also writes - and he has been writing for fun since childhood. From the epic adventures of "Back to the Go-Kart," which involved all of his friends time-traveling in a complete rip-off, to awful Star Trek fanfiction and Star Wars online adventures in his teens.
Now, he is a full-time novelist, and is fast becoming known as "That guy chipping away at the mountain with his teaspoon." Solar Rift is the culmination of an idea that has been growing for over fifteen years now, bubbling away and taking on a life of its own. It merges together everything he loves about science-fiction, classic 80's and 90's movies, espionage and crime thrillers, to cyberpunk and Machiavellian intrigue.
With his trusty writing-partner, Jasmin Joachims, he has currently just finished writing the novella prologue to the series, 2120, and is already two-thirds through the huge first novel, 2121. With the series likely to run to at least five full-length novels, Steve may well get through more than a couple of spoons.
When not supporting Liverpool FC, gaming and killing Kerbals, jogging, or watching movies (being a massive movie nerd,) he tries to wedge-in reading a book whenever he can.
