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eBook details
- Title: Orchid in the Void
- Author : Steve Whitting
- Release Date : January 05, 2018
- Genre: Adventure,Books,Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Science Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 421 KB
Description
Peter âPeteâ Soñador made a decent living writing scripts for the popular streaming serial, "Out to the Void", but frequently fantasized about living the life of a real independent spacer. After Pete inherits a large sum of money from his late, long-absent father, his âbest friendâ John takes him on a drunken celebration that culminates with Pete awaking the next morning as the new owner of a considerably less-than-state-of-the-art âcandleâ (i.e., space ship) named âOrchidâ that Pete apparently purchased at auction the previous evening. With his inheritance gone, Pete finds himself forced into the very life that heâs been making a living writing about. He quickly discovers that the real life of an independent spacer isnât exactly like his space opera scripts, though. It seems that real candles donât have artificial gravity that you can turn on-and-off with a switch, faster-than-light drives, or bottomless fuel tanks.
Accompanied by his friend and pilot John, his new girlfriend and âgenius mechanicâ Cat, crafty trader Lo Phat, and Loâs daughter/legal assistant/body guard Tuesday, Pete and his crew lift-off from their Martian home world and head for distant Ganymede with a cargo of so-called âluxury itemsâ (including institutional grade toilet paper) thatâs supposedly worth more than its weight in gold on the frozen frontier moon. Thatâs when things start to seem more like one of Peteâs âOut to the Voidâ scripts.
âOrchid in the Voidâ is a rollicking space adventure set in Earthâs Solar System centuries in the future that combines hard science-fiction with pulp detective story intrigue and comic interludes. Youâll find it hard to put it down.