The Old Man and the Void

Dex Hollister hunts relics in the accretion disk of a black hole. Aging, impoverished, and suffering from a dry streak, he sets his sights on the biggest score of all: a battleship from a long-dead civilization. Dex makes the "catch," but his prize powers up and pulls them both across the event horizon. In this no-man's land of time and space, the automated ships of two ancient civilizations still fight their war. Trapped beyond the point of no return, Dex must use all his cunning to make his way back home. Written in the trasition of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, this story pits man against the universe in a space opera setting.