Engineman

Once they pushed big ships through the cobalt glory of the Nada-Continuum, but faster than light isn't fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undiclosed destination. The Nada-Continuum holds the key to Ralph's future. What he cannot anticipate is its univerala importance-nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony world 

Eric Brown is the award-winnig author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Necropath,

The New York Trilogy and The Fall of Tartarus, as well as many children's books, radio plays, articles and reviews.