The novel “Engineman” by Eric Brown was published for the first time in 1994. In 2010 it was published in a new edition that includes eight short stories set in the same fictional universe.

For many years, enginmen, specialized pilots, drove the interstellar spaceships through the Nada-Continuum, a continuum outside our space-time that allowed to travel across many light-years away in a short time. However, a new technology has replaced that kind of propulsion replacing it with portals that allow an even faster and cheaper interstellar travel.