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. An alien romance? Well, they never work out.

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 THIS NOVELLA

Sliding Void (novella #1 of the 'Sliding Void' series of scifi books)

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FORMAT

Novella - part 1 of a continuing, linked series. The first volume is often offered as a free scifi book to introduce you to this exciting series of science fiction Kindle books.

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THE SERIES SO FAR...

Novella 1 - Sliding Void.

Novella 2 - Transference Station.

Novella 3 - Red Sun Bleeding.

Also available as a combined omnibus edition: 'Void All The Way Down', in both print and Kindle ebook format.

Book 4: Anomalous Thrust.

Book 5: Hell Fleet

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A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS SLIDING VOID BOOKS

I was driven to write a rip-roaring space opera adventure to fill the gap left when I realised all my favourite science fiction series on TV had sadly ended - Star Trek, Battlestar, Stargate, Firefly, Babylon 5, Farscape (sob). Your kind feedback makes me hope that the crew of misfits onboard the Gravity Rose have succeeded in entertaining you on the pages of my scifi books. Long may Lana and her friends keep on flying into danger . . . and escaping it!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' scifi 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

‘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

‘Filled with alien romance: a Scifi Masterworks in the making.’

- SFCROWSNEST.ORG.UK

‘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