Sashay to the Centre of the Earth

The third hilarious instalment of the anarchic Battlestar Suburbia series.

The only thing harder to win than a war is the peace that follows it... Six months after the end of hostilities that pitted man against robot, both machines and humans are still struggling to work out how they'll share custody of the solar system.

Down on Earth, prime minister Fuji Itsu should really be dealing with that - and the planet's crumbling concrete crust – but now she's fallen through it and her chief-of-staff has lost her backup disk.

Up in space, acting first minister Janice has only one hope of protecting the eight million people on the Battlestar Suburbia. That means sending an ultra-secret mission made up of two ill-matched beauticians to infiltrate an interplanetary smuggling ring.

Somewhere in between, a smartphone with an agenda that not even he understands is supposed to bring these two sides together.

Both robots and humans learn that the answers to – and possibly the causes of – all their problems lie not in space but under their feet. It's time for toasters and fleshies alike to Sashay to the Centre of the Earth.

About the Author

Chris McCrudden was born in South Shields (no, he doesn't know Cheryl) and has been, at various points in his life, a butcher's boy, a burlesque dancer and a hand model for a giant V for Victory sign on Canary Wharf. He now lives in London and, when not writing books, works in PR, so in many ways you could describe his life as a full-time fiction.