Stealing Light (Shoal)

by Gary Gibson

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In the 25th century, only the Schindleria possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), thus exerting an economic stranglehold on all interstellar travel. For a century and a half, mankind has operated within their influence, till now there are at least a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Schindlerian trade routes. Sonja Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible. Now piloting a civilian cargo ship, she is currently ferrying an exploration team to a star system containing a derelict starship. From its wreckage, her passengers hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of mysteriously non-Schindlerian origin. But the Schindleria are not yet ready to relinquish their monopoly of a technology they acquired through ancient genocide.
  • ISBN10 1405091894
  • ISBN13 9781405091893
  • Publish Date 5 October 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 October 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Macmillan
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 441
  • Language English