Description

Never tell an independent space trader the odds.

Captain Lana Fiveworlds is sliding void aboard the Gravity Rose, an ageing, 700-year-old starship scraping a living on the edges of civilised space. The ship is old, the debts are real, and the crew is exactly the sort of collection of misfits you acquire when good judgement has long since abandoned ship.

There is an alien religious navigator with absolute faith and questionable timing. An android first mate whose loyalty is never quite as reassuring as it should be. A disgraced lizard trade negotiator with a talent for trouble. And a fleet deserter chief engineer who knows far too much about keeping ancient machinery alive under circumstances best described as “medically inadvisable”.

Lana needs a lucrative cargo. What she gets is an ex-crewman begging for help, a mission to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world, and a chain of dangers that could destroy the Gravity Rose and scatter her crew into the infinite dark.

Void All the Way Down is the Season One omnibus of Stephen Hunt’s Sliding Void series, collecting the first three novellas: Sliding Void, Transference Station and Red Sun Bleeding. Packed with high-stakes adventure, strange worlds, black humour, ancient secrets and starship peril, it is a fast-moving space opera for readers who like their science fiction full of danger, wit, and crews who should really have read the small print before taking the job.