Sliding Void: #1 of the Sliding Void series

Stephen Hunt

Oct 2011 · Sliding Void Book 1 · Green Nebula Publishing

About this ebook

 Sliding Void (Book 1 of the Sliding Void science fiction series)

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...

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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. 

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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

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FORMAT

Novella - part 1 of a continuing, linked series.

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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'.

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AGE ADVISORY

Age 13+ - mild violence and language.

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READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS...

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Evan Currie

Peter F. Hamilton

Ric Locke

Dan Simmons

Charles Stross

David Weber

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GENRES

Science fiction (space opera)

Adventure (scifi)

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Ratings and reviews

If there's one thing anybody could hate, it's being suckered. Sliding Void starts out as a pretty good yarn. You get 89 pages and begin to get a feel for the characters, then a solicitation to buy the rest of the book. In fairness, I have a habit of trying the free and inexpensive books, then buying sequels if the first offering was worth reading. So this scheme fits with my method. But what irritates me is not being told up front that I'm getting what amounts to a free or low-cost SAMPLE, and that the "rest of the story" is not included. The "sample" and the rest of the story are titled separately. l know that making an income selling ebooks for $2.99, must be tough, but I don't like being the object of sales "tactics".

Space opera at its best. Look forward to reading more.

Awesome book thank you

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.