Devil to the Belt is an omnibus release from 2000 containing two science fiction novels by American writer C. J. Cherryh, Heavy Time (1991), and Hellburner (1992).

Both of the included works were nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in their respective years of eligibility.

Heavy Time and Hellburner are set in the Sol System at the beginning of the "Company Wars" period in the 24th century.

Disputes over mining rights, corporate corruption and economic exploitation are key plot elements in the first novel.

Both novels, especially Hellburner, are works of military science fiction, taking place amidst the development of the Earth Company Fleet of warships that are to be deployed against Union forces in the upcoming war.

Inside, they find blood and bits of organic waste, and a barely-alive young man called Dekker.

Ben heads down to the lower decks of Refinery Two, where few freerunners venture, to see if he can get quicker info from the company executives about whether he and Bird have any salvage rights to Dekker's ship, while Bird stays on the upper levels and meets up with two female friends of his, Meg and Sal.

Then bureaucratic failures allow word of Cory's death to reach her mother, a powerful politician on Mars, and she accuses Dekker of kidnapping and killing her daughter so he could inherit the other half of their ship.

They persuade him to sign a form that looks like an insurance claim and that lets them take away his license as a freerunner, on medical grounds.

Then Dekker is released from hospital, and finally discovers his pilot's license has been revoked, and then that he has lost ownership of the ship.