Searching the Void

Wanderers #2

by James Murdo

Now a passenger on the Wanderer ship, Gil struggles to comprehend its galaxy-spanning quest and her place amongst the stars. She is helped by 998, the c-autom appointed by the craft-lect as her guardian, while it also deals with its own burgeoning duties as quasi-leader of its kind. The ship’s other recent passenger, One-oh, an ancient bio-lect and assumed sole survivor of an ancient race, has meanwhile retreated into self-imposed isolation – although dark secrets about a terrible past threaten to be unleashed.

Minding its own business, a data-lect supervising one of the Wanderer data exchange portals is taken by surprise when a puzzling stranger makes an unexpected visit – its absurd claims of other realities can’t possibly be true, can they?

Elsewhere, paradise is tirelessly tended to by its devoted workers, keen to aid their forgetful creator in remembering vital knowledge that was lost. The gardens require a steady influx of new seedlings to continue to flourish, but a new arrival could jeopardise everything.

406 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2018

About the author

James Murdo was born and raised in London, where he still lives. He graduated from university with a Masters degree in Physics, which added fuel to his early love of science fiction. All of James' books are set in the Wanderer Universe.

James also created the Glossary Generator (software that quickly combs author manuscripts to help identify key terms that may be useful to include in glossaries). It can be found and used for free on James' website.

TAPACHE'S PROMISE TRILOGY
Echoes of Gravity (Book 1)
Echoes of Time (Book 2)
Echoes of Foundation (Book 3)

STANDALONES
Siouca Remembers
Long Paradise
Fractured Carapace

WANDERERS SERIES
Gil’s World (Book 1)
Searching the Void (Book 2)
Infinite Eyes (Book 3)

Instagram: @JamMurdo
Twitter: @JamMurdo

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gil returns from the first book, ready to move closer to her destiny...but which one? Not surprisingly, there are known and unknown histories that are driving the current tricky events. The saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained" is quite apropos for this book. The blend of biology, science, technology, and engineering is staggering. Thrown in some ideals and that makes for a masterful read!

[Mystee Pulcine · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazingly unique tale. Again I found myself confused in the middle, but the author masterfully clarified everything (that he intended to) by the end. I'm really enjoying the separate but equally harrowing stories of these "siblings", and I love to see how the machine-lects can have such wildly different personalities - as would be the case with sentient life.

If you liked Gil's world, you will love this book as well.

[Ishmael Longstar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series needs to be picked up by Netflix

[Yulia Treskova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still not enough answers!!!! When does the next one come out?!?