Shadow Captain

'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN 'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' SUN Returning to the universe of Revenger , award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars. Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . . 'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX

Report

Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks... This is a novel that's elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as first time round, rip-roaring fun. SFX MAGAZINE

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Reynolds
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780575090644
• ISBN: 978-0-575-09064-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Revenger; REVENGER
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Science Fiction / Military, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)