Revelation

Netherspace #3

by Andrew Lane

It's half-way through the twenty-first century.

It wasn't much of an army to save Earth from alien, pre-cog domination. Only three an heiress, a sociopathic artist and their leader, a female licensed assassin. But time has run out. The artificial intelligences - alien artefacts - that run Earth and its colonies are going mad. Long held human grudges, suspicions and fears have erupted in violence throughout the world.

Earth's own pre-cogs have seen the trio victorious... maybe. For Kara Jones, the assassin, it is a time of chaos made worse by the absence of Tatia Nerein, the heiress now warrior who is following her own dangerous path across alien worlds, and Marc Keislack, who stepped into netherspace, the dimension that allows star travel. Kara searches for a way to snatch her people back from a hostile galaxy even as she is assailed by doubts. But loyalty is everything and she will sacrifice anything to find her comrades and complete a mission she barely understands.

And ultimately discover the truth about the aliens... a revelation no greater than the truth she learns about herself.

Genres: Science Fiction

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2019

About the author

See also work published as Andy Lane

During 2009, Macmillan Books announced that Lane would be writing a series of books focusing on the early life of Sherlock Holmes. The series was developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lane had already shown an extensive knowledge of the Holmes character and continuity in his Virgin Books novel All-Consuming Fire in which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who.

The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series – Death Cloud – was published in the United Kingdom in June 2010 (February 2011 in the United States), with the second – Red Leech – published in the United Kingdom in November of that year (with a United States publication date under the title Rebel Fire of February 2012). The third book – Black Ice – was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book – Fire Storm – was published originally in hardback in October 2011 with a paperback publication in March 2012. The fifth book, Snake Bite was published in hardback in October 2012 and the sixth book, Knife Edge was published in September 2013. Death Cloud was short-listed for both the 2010 North East Book Award. (coming second by three votes) and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award. Black Ice won the 2012 Centurion Book Award.

Early in 2012, Macmillan Children's Books announced that they would be publishing a new series by Lane, beginning in 2013. The Lost World books will follow disabled 15-year-old Calum Challenger, who is co-ordinating a search from his London bedroom to find creatures considered so rare that many do not believe they exist. Calum's intention is to use the creatures' DNA to help protect the species, but also to search for a cure for his own paralysis. His team comprises a computer hacker, a free runner, an ex-marine and a pathological liar.

Reviews

[Marcos “MSMDragon” · Rating 3 out of 5]

This entire series reminds me of one of those weird movies on the Syfy channel. Like it has a cool concept but you also don’t really know what’s going on most of the time. And the story’s not bad, but it’s also not good.

[Derek Albright · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not terrible but, I do agree with someone else’s review that it was like a Sy Fy channel movie. Good concept but not the best dialogue and execution. 2.5

[John Vitucci · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.85 - Picked up well to tie everything together. had a nice crescendo and did make you feel like you came to conclusions of the characters at similar instances. The ideas behind the final confrontation felt weak, but I believe that was due to the previous writing and limitations of the author trying to tie in some abstract concepts into a coherent climax. Arguably the strongest book in the series and brought nice closure.

[Phil Kingston]

First thing worth saying is that Andrew Lane DID NOT write this one and I feel like it shows. I'm half way through and there's something missing in the over emphasis on abstraction and a frankly uncomfortable tendency for the author to be preoccuppied by his heroine's sex life.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding novel of awkward first contact!

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding space opera!