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270 pp
ISBN: 978-1-59102-786-7
Trade Paperback (6" x 9")
$16.00
November 2009
Cover Illustration: © Dave Seeley (www.daveseeley.com)
Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past—to experience it firsthand. Once she's dived the ship, she'll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It's a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.
Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It's impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn't be here. It can't be here. And yet, it is. Boss's curiosity is up, and she's determined to investigate. She hires a group of divers to explore the wreck with her, the best team she can assemble. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past won't give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.
What Boss finds could rewrite history, cost lives, and start an intergalactic war.
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- Won as Best Adventure Novel
on Grasping for the Wind "Best Reads of 2009" list
- Nominated for best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel
of 2009 in RT Book Reviews
Reviews:
"I won't lie, this is precisely the kind of book for me... I found it a wonderfully engaging read that had me longing to be exploring the silent, frozen hallways of long abandoned spaceships right alongside Boss and her crew. I'll be keeping an eye for for future work by Rusch that will hopefully further explore the universe glimpsed in Diving Into the Wreck. This is space adventure done right and I can't wait for more."
—King of the Nerds!!!
"I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the book that had a similar effect to the watching of an action movie. That is not to say that there was not more to love in this novel, but it is the one I can best see being turned into a great science fiction movie."
—Grasping for the Wind
"The pacing is perfect, the choices and decisions made by the major characters feel authentic and leaves readers looking for more."
—Monsters and Critics.com
"Rusch pulls it all off very well, with strong psychological insights into both Boss and those around her, from old friends to the latest enemies."
&mdash:Locus
"I have not enjoyed a science fiction book this much in many years. This book reads like great Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Pohl, or any of the great masters of science fiction. The book had all the attributes that make a book great: great characters, great plot, great adventure and most of all great fun. This book harkens back to the best of classic fiction, and I hope it is a major success, because I want more books like this from Rusch. Read the book and join the adventure; you will not be sorry. A 10 out of 10. This book will be around for a long time."
—Catches at the Beach, The News Guard
"Rusch's writing transcends the genre. If you enjoy complex characters in a unique environment, suspense, and a rollicking good story, you'll enjoy this book, and you'll undoubtedly be hoping to run into Boss again, and soon!"
—Monsters and Critics
"Tense and gripping... The endlessly enjoyable terror of dark, alien, empty spaces brimming with unknowable danger and impenetrable mystery should keep fans of the genre hooked."
—Internet Review of Science Fiction
"Rusch takes the dangers inherent in deep sea diving and memorably puts them into the deep dark vacuum of space, making the exploration of the hulk a much more complicated issue than tends to be the case in the SF."
—Best SF Reviews
"Science fiction fans should expect to be hooked."
—Publishers Weekly on The Recovery Man
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