Sub-Luminal
About
First to boldly go,
Last to bloody arrive...
Callum MacMahon commands the Earth’s first starship. Risking it all on a century long, one-way trip, his daring crew have said goodbye to everyone and everything. They awake, ready to colonise a virgin world...
Except they’ve been beaten to it.
This can happen when you sleep on the job and humanity is handed a hyper-drive.
The would-be explorers encounter a society that is secure and content, yet set in its ways and less than bright. In charge is an Artificial Intelligence who cares for them as it sees fit. After all, it knows best and it’s entirely for their own good.
Callum’s crew could choose a peaceful life. They could just go find the nearest bar. But with no way back and something clearly wrong, do they have the right to interfere?
And what will happen to them if they do?
Praise for this book
Sub-Luminal is a delight for readers who revel in the sheer joy of language; for anyone who
loves dry wit and understated humour. Sitting at that popular intersection between visionary
sci-fi and wry social commentary, it’s an entertaining blend of drama, comedy and satire. For
fans of everything from The Office to The Hitch Hiker’s Guide series, this could be a rare and
memorable treat.
This is science fiction at its best - thoughtful, engaging, entertaining, and with something witty to say about the wisdom of the choices we‘re making today. A fine mix of futurism, wry observation and cutting social commentary, *Sub-Luminal* should be on every fan’s bookshelf.
Funnier than *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress*, shorter than *Lord of the Rings*, and more relevant than *Five on a Treasure Island*, *Sub-Luminal* is science fiction you can get your teeth into.
Sub-uminal is a science-fiction novel of the future dealing with fog-brained fools ruled by ruthless AI. Which is to say: ‘future’ = ‘now’. Five stars for taking a conventional science-fiction plot and making it original, and fun, and exciting. For me it was pleasure to read plucky humans facing the AI devil and Idiocracy blither, and coming out ahead.