The immortality thief

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Personal Author:

Hunt, Taran

Physical Description:

602 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Kystrom chronicles ; 1

Genre:

Science fiction.

Summary:

"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...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"--

Subject Term:

Linguists -- Fiction.

Space vehicles -- Fiction.

Monsters -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Immortalism -- Fiction.

Publication Info:

Oxford : Solaris, 2022.

Subject:

Linguists -- Fiction.

Space vehicles -- Fiction.

Monsters -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Immortalism -- Fiction.

Science fiction.

Space rockets

Spacecraft

Spaceships

Freaks

Monsters, Double

Monstrosities

Concealment

Prolongation of life span

SAILS ISBN:

9781786185129

Available:

Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... Foxboro - Boyden Library	SF HUNT	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Mansfield Public Library	FIC HUNT	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... New Bedford Free Public Library	SCI HUNT	SCIENCE FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Norton Public Library	SF HUNT KYSTROM V1	SCIENCE FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Pembroke Public Library	FIC HUNT, T.	FICTION	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.

Linguist and scoundrel Sean Wren is in trouble. Again. And this time, his sentence is to salvage the data of the Philosopher Stone experiments from an abandoned, long lost ship--before it explodes in a supernova.

But this spaceship isn't as abandoned as they thought. When Sean arrives with his crew, they discover the place is crawling with monsters, and some of its original residents still lurk in the shadows. Dark secrets are scrawled in languages only Sean can read. Worse, the Ministers, humanity's greatest oppressors, are also stalking the ship's empty corridors, seeking the same data.

Trapped and with time running out, Sean will have to rely on his wits, his closest friend Benny, the monsters within, and the enemies around him to get out with the riches he was promised.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

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. Agent: Hannah Bowman, Liza Dawson Associates. (Oct.)

Library Journal Review

DEBUT This is a unique blend of space opera and horror, complete with nerve-wracking claustrophobia and insights into the ethics of experimentation. Sean Wren is a refugee who lost his homeland due to the conflict between the Ministers and the Republic. He's forcibly sent off to an abandoned and broken-down spaceship that is packed with monsters, enemies, and secrets while it idles next to a dying star that's about to blow. As a talented linguist who knows the dead language Ameng, his mission is to recover mysterious scientific data. To navigate this labyrinthine ship of horrors, the impish and lovable Sean has no choice but to team up with his enemies, specifically the stony and deadly Minister Indigo and the ruthless and determined Republican Lieutenant Lantern-Eyes. Hunt's perfect balance of humor, viciousness, and soul-searching results in an emotional rollercoaster of a novel, where laugh-out-loud comedy competes with heartbreaking tragedy. VERDICT Hunt's debut is fun, fast-paced, cutting-edge, and full of epic twists, with a highly accessible writing style. Fans of Andy Weir and Martha Wells will love it.--Andrea Dyba