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Ethan Rifts hates space, and yet he has joined a space faring crew of a small ship called the Hook Line to escape the troubles on his homeworld. The Hook Line crew needs an extra hand for an easy contract they took, and Ethan figures it will be worth it. They get help, and he gets away and can start over. Everyone wins. The crew heads to the distant planet of Onyx for their job, but upon arrival, they find that something has gone wrong. The space port is missing, and they get a distress signal and an encrypted signal coming from a badly damaged colony ship called Bon Voyage. Upon entering the colony ship, they find a message on a wall. One by one we goWhen it stops, we don't knowOne by one we goFrom that moment on, it becomes a fight for survival against an unknown alien species and psychotic survivors, and watching it all is an eccentric announcer who calls himself the Voice. He claims he can stop the aliens and help Ethan Rifts and his team, but first they have to help him. However, there is more to Bon Voyage and the Hook Line crew, and maybe the events are not so random after all. (Second edition)

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A gratifyingly graphic page-turner with depth, intrigue and nail-biting shocks, Williams leads his readers on an unforgettable journey into the heart of evil with Bon Voyage.If a science fiction shocker is to be convincing it has to feel utterly plausible but far too many releases in the genre prove disappointing and it's for the former reason that Williams' novel stands out. Many releases in the sci-fi genre and elsewhere, are all pay-off and no buildup but Williams gets the balance just right. He has a fine eye for the pressures and poignancies of his characters which combined with his ability to craft an intricate action-orientated narrative rapidly draws his readers in.At its most fundamental level, ""Bon Voyage"" is a novel about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you with oozing alien tentacles hitting all the right sci-fi horror notes but one of the key strengths of ""Bon Voyage"" is its pacing with Williams allowing quiet moments to punctuate the action.Williams then uses a tricky device to keep the ""alien spores"" fresh throughout by evolving the nature and appearance of the creatures created by them, so we never know quite what they are going to look like or how far they have turned. The spoors don't play by any known rules of appearance or behaviour and they are quick to become an amorphous menace, terrorizing the crew of The Hook Line with the spectre of their morphing evil. With The Hook Line's tough-talking crew members, Williams doesn't simply give us characters where dialogue is reduced to terse statements telegraphing the plot. He wants us to know them and when they fall he wants us to feel their loss.Central to Williams' characters is his protagonist Ethan Rifts. He hates space and this allows Williams to neatly avoid trite tropes to create an original character whilst instilling him with more engaging qualities than readers typically expect from a protagonist in the genre.A finely tuned science fiction shocker with cleverly orchestrated twists Bon Voyage is highly recommended. Space Opera Science Fiction - BookViral Book Reviews (bookviralreviews.com)

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