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"Entertaining deep space thriller"

The Void, a way of traveling from Point A to Point B is the way people and objects move through space. Pilots use the power of their minds to move gigantic ships with passengers and cargoes through the Void. One of the best pilots Jack Claver, who has a ten plus rating, is missing. Even when he is in the Void his daughter Jackie, also with a mental rating of ten plus can sense him which is why she knows he isn't dead when the authorities tell her his ship was lost in the Void.

Jackie plans to rescue him and she uses the insurance money to hire a Void pilot and a hopper to go into the Void. Once they reach the Void, the pilot dies and Jackie finds herself on a world populated by strange creatures and vegetation that looks like it came from a human based planet. Her plan is to find her father, rescue him and escape the Void world but that is more complicated than she knows because this world holds many secrets and getting out might prove impossible.

MAIDEN VOYAGER is a very entertaining work filled with original ideas kind of like placing the Hotel California in deep space. The secrets of the Void world is just one of the reason readers will finish the book in one sitting. The heroine a seventeen year old sheltered teen is determined to achieve her goals of saving her father, the other inhabitants of the Void world and find a way to escape . Her strength and determination makes her an admiral protagonist who readers hope succeeds.

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 15, 2005

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 25, 2007

By the end of the twenty-first century, interstellar travel has become a reality due to the discovery of tears in the fabric of space. Called the Void, these dimensionless rifts provide pathways between the stars that can be navigated by those with exceptional mental powers. But crossings must be completed in a matter of minutes, before the Void pilots lose all sense of their physical reality. Jackie Claver's sheltered life in a posh girls' school ends when the ship her father pilots becomes lost during a crossing. Sensing he still lives, the teenager is convinced she can mind-link with him to guide him out. But no qualified pilot will risk such an impossible mission. Then Jackie learns of a former Void pilot named Crow whom her father once befriended. Crow, to Jackie's great disappointment, turns out to be a seedy alcoholic. Still, he agrees to help. Together, they hijack a small rental craft and fly it into the Void. Then Crow has a heart attack and dies. Trapped in the Void, Jackie finds herself mysteriously transported to a strange fantasy world populated by animal-like humanoids, a world that shouldn't exist. Left completely on her own now, Jackie must solve the riddle of this world's existence. Then she must look within herself to find the means to confront and defeat the powerful being that created it, even if that being turns out to be her own father.