2025/026: Edge of Nowhere — Felicia Davin

2025/026: Edge of Nowhere — Felicia Davin

Kit was afraid to speak aloud what he’d seen—a man, trapped and screaming—because it sounded so crazy. And yet this was his life: teleportation, asteroids, other realities. What was one more thing in the mix? Why not a tortured ghost? [loc. 1966]

Kit is a runner, which means he can teleport to any coordinates he's given, usually with some illicit package, or a mob boss's gift (a stressed and vomitous dog) to his girlfriend. Runners, who teleport by moving through a dark featureless space called the Nowhere, are rare: they've made limited space colonisation possible. Dr Solomon Lange, a scientist working at QSF, an orbital facility in lunar orbit, has vanished while running experiments on the Nowhere: the sole witness to the accident, Emil Singh, has been thoroughly questioned by Quint Services. Now he's due to be returned to QSF, sedated and blindfolded -- and Kit is the runner chosen to transport him. But the Nowhere isn't empty...

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