Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking.
Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.
And he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. And time is running out.
In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding.
Goldsboro Books pick for GSFF November 2022. Signed, numbered, with a digitally printed edge, foiling on the dust jacket, head and tail bands, and a ribbon bookmark. Limited to 2,000 copies.
- ISBN13 9781786189899
- Publish Date 13 October 2022 (first published 11 October 2022)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Solaris
- Edition Goldsboro Exclusive
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 608
- Language English
- Special Numbered Signed Sprayed Edges