Jumping the Jack

by Clayton Emery

Sam and Hannah, a husband-and-wife team of starship engineers, are dropped into a creaking, crumbling space station in the Outblack, then trapped by slithering lizard-folk and xenophobic colonists. Lost and abandoned, Sam and Hannah explore dark reaches while battling rogue robots and fragmenting technology. Then they discover a pod-world turned inside out-and in danger of spinning apart. As earthquakes worsen, fires rage, and Union Marines battle aliens and natives, Sam and Hannah fight to stay alive and stabilize the station . . . before it flies to pieces, taking them and everybody else with it . . .

Hardcover

First published March 24, 2009

About the author

Clayton Emery is an umpteen-generations Yankee, Navy brat, and aging hippie who grew up playing Robin Hood in the forests of New England.

He's been a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer firefighter, and award-winning technical writer.

He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

Clayton lives with his sweetie in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his ancestors came ashore in 1635.

From: http://www.claytonemery.com/CE_bio.html