a big ship at the edge of the universe by alex white

I immediately knew I had to write space opera, regardless of what I came up with.

I was listening to this Seven Lions album, Worlds Apart, basically on repeat, and that music is begging for space battles. Where did you get the idea for A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe and how different is the finished novel from that original concept? The two are kidnapped by Boots’ old crew, who she betrayed with a fake salvage map, and swept into the stars, where they must uncover and topple a vast, galactic conspiracy. At the core of each map, she uses a piece of hard evidence, and she doesn’t realize she’s stumbled upon one of the greatest finds of all time: the legendary warship Harrow.

She comes from a dead world, destroyed by civil war, and now makes her living selling garbage salvage maps to desperate enthusiasts. Nilah witnesses, and is subsequently framed for, a murder on the track, and she has to go on the run with only one lead: Boots Elsworth sold the murder victim a map.īoots Elsworth is a washed-up treasure hunter, and suffers from arcana dystocia she’s one of the one-in-five-million who was born without the organ required for spellcasting. Everyone in the universe of The Salvagers has their own magic spell - fire, teleportation, luck, and so on - though not everyone is talented with it.

To start, what is A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe about?Ī Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe is about Nilah Brio, a pampered race car driver at the top of her game who has the power to control machines with her mind. Well, this is a new one: In the following email interview with writer Alex White, they explain that their epic new space fantasy novel, A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe ( paperback, Kindle) was inspired by EDM, In Cold Blood, and Formula 1 racing.

A big ship at the edge of the universe by alex white