Netherspace series by Andrew Lane, Nigel Foster (books 1&2)
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Overview: Netherspace began when we met at bookstore in Dorset, South West England. (Winstone’s Book store, subsequently named UK Independent Bookstore Of The Year. The two events may or may not be connected). Anyway, we discovered a mutual love of HP Lovecraft and science fiction. And of the latter, were annoyed by continuing tropes. Like space ships are always so beautifully streamlined. Why? And noise is still travelling in a near-vacuum. And when humans meet aliens, they always find a way to communicate because they’re just like us, really. Even when it isn’t life as we know it, there’s always an understanding. So in our polite, English way we said B******* to that, let’s make it real.
Genre: Fiction | Sci-fi/Fantasy
#1 – Netherspace
Contact with an alien race, the Gliese, has been made, but communication is impossible. There is trade, but on seemingly inexplicable terms; anti-gravity technology was traded for a bicycle tyre. As we begin to colonize the stars, we’re still dependant on the mysterious aliens who we still do not understand. It falls upon the unlikely team of a conceptual artist, Marc, and assassin, Kara, to embark on a mission that will unearth the mystery of the Gliese.
#2 – Originators
It’s half-way through the twenty-first century.
Contact with alien races was made forty years ago, but communication turns out to be impossible. We don’t share a way of thinking or common sensory inputs with the aliens, let alone a grammar. But there is trade, done on a basis of putting things on a table and taking them off again until agreement is reached. There is no obvious pattern to the trades. Alien anti-gravity technology was traded for a bicycle tyre. Human science has become fixated on understanding alien technology – with little success. We can learn what it does and how to operate it. We don’t know how it works – or how to fix it. The world may be a better place but it’s no longer our own. We may be colonizing the stars, but we’re dependant on inexplicable alien Faster-Than-Light technology. This is controlled by aliens we call the Gliese and is the only constant trade: FTL engines for human beings, any age or condition, as long as they’re alive. We don’t know what happens to them, but rumour says they are taken to a Nirvana where all illnesses will be healed. Their families are also very well compensated. Interstellar immigration and trade are central to the world’s economy. There is no shortage of volunteers.
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