The cramped station adds so much tension throughout the book as characters climb, crawl and slice their way through its innards.
If having no room to move gives you the heebie-jeebies, you’re going to be reading heart-in-mouth. The Immortality Thief soon turns into a really claustrophobic novel. With no choice but to press on and find the Philosopher’s Stone – the name given to the experiments that took place on board – or see himself and his friends’ heads explode, Seans simple mission goes south straight away. The Nameless is full of lab experiments gone horribly wrong. He dubs the stranded space station The Nameless early on and soon falls foul of the gene-spliced inhabitants. Sean is a quintessential loudmouth space rogue who really finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. So, is it a horror? It sure feels like it. If you are a fan of things that go bump in the space station, you’re going to enjoy this. This genre bending sci-fi horror brings shades of Dead Space and Resident Evil to space opera. And it’s right next to a star that’s about to go supernova in a matter of days.
If the remote-controlled bomb in his neck isn’t bad enough, The Nameless is a space station full of genetically modified experiments that want to rip him to pieces and the technologically advanced superhuman Ministers – similarly not averse to ripping him to pieces – are also looking for the data. Board the abandoned space station, get the data inside and keep anything of interest he might find for himself. and the terrible secret it's hiding.When linguist and smuggler Sean Wren takes on a job to find a priceless piece of data, it sounds conspicuously simple. 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. 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 he's not the only one looking for the derelict ship.
Data connected to the Philosopher's Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality. 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.
But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking. Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium.
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