VOID SHIP: BOOK I OF THE VOID

by Dave Bara

A dark void of dead space... One empire consumed, two others survival hanging in the balance... Ambassador Tam Renwick of the Terran Unity carries the critical Treaty of Pentauri back to the Raelen Empire's home world of Raellos. Without the treaty both empires might die, consumed by the Void. But before Renwick can complete his mission, the Unity cruiser Phaeton is ambushed and Renwick and his crew flee out of control - and into the Void. Unexpectedly they are rescued by the "Void Ship" Kali, completely run by androids with a holographic Captain who's human body disappeared over 300 years ago. Together with the Kali Renwick must rescue his abducted crew, forge new alliances within the Void itself, and stop a war from breaking out with an alien force that has used the Void as a weapon to conquer all of humanity!

410 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2018

About the author

Dave Bara was born at the dawn of the space age and grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo space programs on television. He dreamed of becoming an astronaut one day. This soon led him to an interest in science fiction, especially on television. His early years were filled with dozens of episodes of the original Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.

He began to read science fiction voraciously in his teens, with authors like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Gordon Dickson, and Joe Haldeman being among his favorites. This led him to try his hand at writing, which he continued all through his college years, even using a novel project as part of his undergraduate degree studies. During these years the story concepts for what would become The Lightship Chronicles series began to take form.

Dave's writing is influenced by the many SF novels he has read over the years, but most notable were books like Dune (Herbert), The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle), Dorsai! (Dickson), The Forever War (Haldeman), Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) and the Foundation novels (Asimov), among many others.

Dave looks forward to bringing SF fans many years of exciting and interesting writing, heroic characters, and soaring adventure in the years to come.

Look for IMPULSE: The Lightship Chronicles, Volume I on February 3, 2015 from DAW Books in the US and Del Rey Books in the UK and Europe. Volume II, STARBOUND, should be coming later in 2015.