The Immortality Thief
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4.4 • 39 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Replete with action and humor, Hunt's fast-moving debut sends a droll protagonist into the heart of a scientific mystery aboard a derelict spaceship. In this expansive far-future world, the alien Ministers, who conquered and subjugated humanity, are locked in conflict with the human Republic, which has rebelled. When snarky human criminal Sean Wren is charged with attempted murder, he avoids conviction by agreeing to a dangerous secret mission ordered by a shady Republic Senator: retrieving data from a thousand-year-old abandoned spaceship orbiting a star about to go nova. Wren's history in salvage and skills with ancient languages make him uniquely suited to find and decipher the logs of the ship's Philosopher Stone experiments, which reportedly found the secret to eternal life. But both the Ministers and the Republic are on the hunt for this information as well—and all factions must contend with the strange and vicious life-forms that have called the ship home for the past millennia. Hunt weaves together an inventive tale of political intrigue, held together by Wren's clever humor as he uses his powers of deduction to weasel his way out of danger time and again. With plenty of twists along the way, this proves a rollicking page-turner.
Customer Reviews
The end.
A little bit over the edge; but a good ending.