Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet
Immortal are nearing completion of Project Amphora, which aims to unlock
the secret of immortality. The Project is run by the Consortium, twelve
of the planet's most influential movers and shakers, but they aren't the
only ones after immortality. Commander Jockey Oldcastle, a wise-cracking
space pirate, has heard about the Amphora Project from a banished
scientist who is convinced it will lead to the end of the world.
Oldcastle sets off to find the project with Adrian Link, a timid
botanist who wants only to tend to his plants on the Agricultural Plain,
yet Oldcastle finds himself trying to unravel a strange mystery: It
seems the Amphora Project is turning the citizens of Planet Immortal
into crystal. As time runs out, it is up to Oldcastle and Link-- and
Link's exotic, unlikely love interest --to stop their mysterious
extradimensional enemy before their world is lost forever.
Hilarious, wildly inventive, and featuring a fantastical cast of
mutants, quasihuman robots, intergalactic mercenaries, and
two-thousand-year-old immortals, The Amphora Project is a novel that
combines elements of science fiction and fantasy and transcends the
boundaries of both.