Starless and Black - Boroughs, Allan
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For Adam Starless, the future's not what it used to be... As the youngest member of the crew of Gargantua - thirteen-year-old, Adam Starless is leaving Earth for a life amongst the stars. But instead of discovering a new world, Adam wakes from cryo-sleep to find his family are missing and his spaceship has been sold to the scrapyards of Primus City. Worse still, if the ship's mission clock is to be believed, Adam has been asleep for a very long time indeed. Now Adam must learn to survive in a future where he doesn't belong, where the machines are in charge and an unwary boy can get mugged for…mehr

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For Adam Starless, the future's not what it used to be... As the youngest member of the crew of Gargantua - thirteen-year-old, Adam Starless is leaving Earth for a life amongst the stars. But instead of discovering a new world, Adam wakes from cryo-sleep to find his family are missing and his spaceship has been sold to the scrapyards of Primus City. Worse still, if the ship's mission clock is to be believed, Adam has been asleep for a very long time indeed. Now Adam must learn to survive in a future where he doesn't belong, where the machines are in charge and an unwary boy can get mugged for his kidneys. His only hope of finding his family lies with a distant cousin - a fourteen-year-old droid hunter, named Finity Black, a girl with a big gun and a bad attitude. If Adam and Finity can work together, they might solve a mystery that threatens the entire city…if only they don't kill each other first. 'Starless and Black...and the case of the perfect girl', is the first in a new series of science-fiction, detective stories from Allan Boroughs. A classic sci-fi adventure that will appeal to fans of Philip Reeve, Jonathan Stroud and Douglas Adams.
Autorenporträt
Allan Boroughs is a writer and a traveller with a passion for big adventure stories in which "a lot of stuff happens". His debut novel, Ironheart, published by Macmillan, now republished by Faster-Than-Light-Press, was inspired by his travels in Siberia. It tells the story of a young girl who goes in search of her missing father and befriends a seven foot android. The sequel, Bloodstone, follows the duo in a search for Atlantis beneath the southern ice-caps. As well as journeying to Siberia Allan's travels have taken him to Mongolia, China the Antarctic and, most recently, the jungles of Venezuela. His adventures have included swimming beneath the Antarctic circle, crashing a dog sledge into a tree, eating fresh scorpions and an unfortunate incident involving a Siberian toilet. But, he says, the absolute best thing about travelling is the chance to meet new people and hear their own stories. His proudest achievement was completing an on-line psychological profile which told him he had the mind of an 8 year-old. When he is not travelling or writing he enjoys reading, playing the drums, making ginger beer and eating cake. www.allanboroughs.co.uk