Far Field continues the journey begun in A Lesser God, published in 2011by Paul H Deal. The Earth's first emigrant spaceship, carrying 80,000 passengers, is on its way to New Aanland, a cylindrical space habitat in orbit around Far Field, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto's orbit. A group of the emigrants, with high technical competence, find the four year voyage through empty space tedious and decide a detour to some of the solar system's other planets might be more interesting. Using the extraordinary phase-field technology developed by H. P. Devlin, an agent of the extraterrestrial entity,...