A blistering science fiction thriller by Adam Roberts with the hardboiled edge of Richard Stark's Parker series. People call him Starman though his name is Fosse. He steals spaceships to order. In the near future, as humanity colonises the moon and earth’s orbital space, scores of shady groups want in on the action: the mob, emerging nations, terrorists, you name it. If you don’t have the resources to develop your own space programme, no problem. Starman will steal anything you need, from shuttle components to entire rockets. On one of his jobs Starman picks up a strange sphere that seems to possess anti-momentum. He’s not sure what it is, although it's soon apparent that certain people will go to any lengths to relieve him of it. When an Irkutski Independence group enlists Starman to swipe an antique Soviet rocket from a Russian space museum, the mistake they make is double-crossing him. Starman is most definitely not the kind of man you sell out …
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Adam Roberts (born 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine. He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies. He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated twice for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001, for his debut novel, Salt, and in 2007, for Gradisil.
