OUT NOW: The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt
11th October 2022
Happy book birthday to the fantastic The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt!
Indiana Jones meets Event Horizon in this spooky and adventurous sci-fi tale of linguistics, abandoned spaceships, monsters and found family.
Don’t worry UK readers, you only have to wait until Thursday to get your hands on it!
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.
“Fun, resonant and compulsively readable” — Veronica Roth
“Fun, fast-paced, cutting-edge, and full of epic twists” — Library Journal, starred review