Sci-fi read circa 1992. World/universe broken up - voids maybe called “the nothing”. Some people can navigate it incl MC, young man/boy. Some ships have “biological component” in engines that allow them to navigate the nothing.

[Donna]

This is literally all I have. It was painful in some way for this character to access these abilities. I feel like the book was written in the ‘80s from the general vibe of it. I wish I could remember more, it’s driven me mad for decades. Possibly aimed at young adult readers but I’m not sure. It had a similar feel to those early stand alone Terry pratchett sci fis and I think came out around the same time. I used to think it was one of his, but no. I would say a bit darker and less humorous than his writing. HELP!

[CorkyNSam92]

To the best of your knowledge, was this this ever made into a movie? Asking because I feel that I have watched a movie before that mentions something called the nothing".

[Donna]

No idea! It might have been? It might not have even been called the nothing in the book, I could be misremembering. Could have been the nowhere or something else similar 😬

[Donna]

Bump

[Kris]

Please note you can bump your own thread 30+ days after the last comment in the thread - because this group is so large. If you remember new details, you can add them at any time.

[Donna]

Bump

[Maria]

I know "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende has "the nothing" and it did come out at around that time. Their world is breaking up. The book is different from the movie in that the movie ends at the first half of the book. The second half has ships and traveling and the MC. Maybe? The Neverending Story

[Kris]

Amazon's preview of The Neverending Story by Michael Ende - Maria's suggestion:

- https://www.amazon.com/Neverending-St...
- There are different cover images.

Wikipedia's plot summary (with Spoilers):

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nev...

[Donna]

It is definitely not neverending story but I’d never read it, so I enjoyed it! More of a standard spaceship sci fi and not written for children, although might have been whatever they called YA in the 80s & 90s