A Hole in The Sky
Arkship Trilogy Book I
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Watkins Media Limited
Published:20th Jan '26
Should be back in stock very soon

THEIR LIFE IS A DREAM, THEIR WORLD IS DYING. Hazel’s family live a simple life in their village. Just one of the communities on a vast generation ship on a centuries long journey to a new world. 500 years ago the machines stopped working and life since then has been frugal. But everyone plays their part. And when you reach 65 you are recycled – it’s only fair; you can’t work anymore and your resources are needed. But not everyone is happy. Hazel encounters the Cheaters, a group who refuse to die for the ship. They have discovered the terrifying lie at the core of life on the ship and they will fight for the truth and for the lives of everyone. Hazel has a choice to make…
“A Hole in the Sky by SF master Peter F. Hamilton is coming-of-age adventure that rapidly turns into the Poseidon Adventure aboard a failing generation ship. It’s engaging, refreshing, and optimistic.”
– Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dune: House Atreides
"A Hole in the Sky is an excellent story, with a central mystery that builds tension throughout: the more you learn, the more you want to find out.”
– Adrian Tchaikovsky, author ofChildren of Time
“The phrase 'modern master of science fiction' is not to be lightly bestowed. Peter F. Hamilton has earned it.”
– John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War
“We’ve said it before but let’s say it again: nobody does BIG SF quite like Hamilton.”
– SFX
“Hamilton puts British SF back into interstellar overdrive.”
– The Times
“So long as there are writers like Hamilton who can blend the core and eternal human bits with the ultrahuman visionary stuff, science fiction will flourish.”
– Locus
“Science fiction authors don’t get much more legendary than Peter F. Hamilton."
– New Scientist
“Hamilton handles massive ideas with enviable ease.”
– Guardian
“The master of his genre.”
– SFFWorld
“SF's go-to guy for adventure on a truly interstellar scale . . . Hamilton's storytelling is both staggering and poetic.”
– SFReviews
“Peter Hamilton doesn't just write Space Opera, he defines it.”
– SFBook.com
“One of the genre’s leading exponents.”
– Daily Mail
“One of our greatest living SF writers.”
– Gareth Powell, author of Embers of War
“No one offers action-packed, meticulous, suspenseful, and consistent high-tech futures better than Peter Hamilton.”
– David Brin, author of Startide Rising
“Hamilton knows how to build a world, and he’s one of the best in the field at imagining complex societies. Just as important, though, he knows how to populate his future environments with real-seeming people whose lives extend beyond the page.”
– Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space
“An expert chronicler of humanity’s far future.”
– Una McCormack, author of The Baba Yaga
“The owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction.”
– Ken Follett, author of The Pillars of the Earth
“A master of science fiction.”
– William C. Dietz, author of Halo: The Flood
"An ark ship adventure page turner I couldn't put down!"
– Garth Nix, author of Sabriel
ISBN: 9781836730095
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
272 pages
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