Endless Blue

Blast Away to Adventure!

The Very Large Object That ATE the Other Very Large Objects!

The Sargasso. Space ships go in, and they don't come back. But as the all-destroying Nefrim drive humanity from the stars, everything depends on one captain's desperate gambit: to dial his stardrive to zero—to "fall off the map"—and plunge into the ocean-covered pocket universe that is the Sargasso. Within is a secret that can change a galaxy. And, though escape is a trick generations of trapped starfarers have tried and failed to master—now the fate of two universes depends on Mikail Volkov being the first to GET OUT!

The dawn of a new hard-hitting space adventure by the winner of the 2003 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer!

"Buffy fans should find a lot to like in [Spencer's] resourceful heroine."
—Publishers Weekly

"Wit and intelligence."
—Publishers Weekly on multiple-award-winning Wen Spencer.

Cover Art by Alan Pollack

Hardcover

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, December 2007

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-7385-2
ISBN-10: 1-4165-7385-2

Copyright© 2007 by Wen Spencer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Acknowledgements:

Greg Armstong, David Brukman (of the North), Ann Cecil, Andrew Heward, W. Randy Hoffman, Nancy Janda, John Schmid, Linda A. Sprinkle and special thanks to Eraphie.

To the House of Mews

Nancy Janda, Lara Van Winkle and Amy Finkbinder

So much creativity in one place, it's amazing it doesn't collapse down into a black hole.