Reboot: Slabscape, Book 3

by S. Spencer Baker, Nicholas Camm (Narrator)

Slab is 350 years into its voyage home when the lights - and everything else - go out. With zero chance of rescue and no possibility that an alternative power source can be invented and deployed in time, most of the 32 million SlabCitizens choose to enter cryo suspension in the fragile hope that if, and when, they are defrosted, there will still be a slab worth living in. To make matters worse, Council have no option but to elevate self-proclaimed business gurulla Louie Drago to the presidency and leave him hypothetically in charge of a small band of suspiciously gifted people tasked with saving Slab.

Not everyone volunteers for the deep freeze. Several million escape in micro-form, and the rest are herded into the one place they might survive in for more than a few days, while, as time-to-failure races erratically towards zero, the NAHs desperately seek help from the most improbable of places.

Louie only wants to save himself, but Dielle, who still can’t accept he is Louie’s reset, is on a mission to save his only hope by making promises he’s pretty sure he can’t keep.

Meanwhile, the Cosmic Tit accidentally saves a space-bound life-form that eats moons for breakfast and things are getting tense in California where, even though it’s been displaced into a virtually time-free discontinuity, there may be only a few 10 to the trillion years left - and that might not be enough.

Reboot is the third in the Slabscape series.

Audible Audio

Published September 30, 2021

About the author

S. Spencer Baker (Steve) was born in September 1956 in Nottingham, England. He fled formal education and family at 17 and refused to ever return to either. He spent many years exploiting the intellectual property of others, first by setting up an indie record label which failed, and then a management company that struggled for far too long before finally finding international success and then a design, film and advertising company which, after a shaky start, thrived in Europe, the US, and Japan. He woke up one morning in Tokyo and remembered that his childhood dream was to write Science Fiction.

Ten years later, Steve published his first novel Slabscape: Reset. The novel is a web-back; a work of fiction which is published in printed as well as e-book format with addenda, back-stories and tangentially linked information available through an online wiki: Slabscapedia.

The second book in the series, Slabscape: Dammit was published in Kindle format in November 2014. The paperback followed six months later. Dammit extends the webback concept with a few more surprises 'hidden' online.

Both of the first two books in the series have been awarded Amazon Best Seller status.

The third book in the series, Slabscape: Reboot, was published on Kindle on 21st December 2020. The paperback may follow later, or book four (Slabscape: Blocks) may come first on the Kindle before either go to print. Ask Schrödinger, he knows.

The first three books in the Slabscape series are available in audiobook format.