Alice and friends go back to space for a special ceremony to mark the colonisation of a new planet by the human's ex-enemies. Intercepted by a big ship belonging to another alien race with their eye, or eye-stalks, on the planet, it's not long before Alice and friends are hurled out of the nearest airlock to prove that the aliens mean business. Certain death beckons! But also adventure and suspense, rescue and revolution, heroism and betrayal! Space Hostages is rousing and enjoyable and manages to feel like old-school science fiction and at the same time fresh and new.