Down

written by: Laurence Miles

DOWN

'Mankind expects pain. However it seems to outsiders.'

Hoist the mainbrace, splice the anchor and join the Doctor and Benny for the maiden voyage of the good ship Schirron Dream, as it ventures into the fungral dark of air spaces occupied by the Sloathes — those villainous slimy evil shapeshifting monsters of utter and unmitigated evil that have placed a system under siege!

Watch Roslyn Forrester and Chris Cwej hove a rough old time of it in durance vile! Meet the intrepid Captain Li Shao, and the beautiful if somewhat single-minded Sun Samurai Leetha t'Zhan! Roast on the dunes of Prometheus, swelter in the fetid jungles of Anea, swim with the Obi-Amphibians of Elysium and freeze off inconvenient items of anatomy on the ice wastes of Reklon in an apparently doomed search for the Eyes of the Schirron, the magickal jewels that will either save the system or destroy it utterly!

Who will live? Who will die? Will the Doctor ever play the harmonium again? All these questions and many more will be answered within the coruscating, fibrillating pages of ... Sky Pirates!



Cover design: Slatter~Anderson
Cover painting: Mark Salwowski

Copyright © Laurence Miles, 1997

Laurence Miles is the author of the acclaimed novel Christmas on a Rational Planet, although he's using the word 'acclaimed' just as loosely as all the other New Adventures writers do. You'll be glad to hear that this one makes just as much sense.

Originally Published: September 16, 1997


ISBN 0 426 20512 X
(Virgin edition 1997)
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