Midshipman's Hope - Seafort Saga Author:David Feintuch A hideous accident kills the senior officers of the UNS Hibernia - leaving a terrified young officer to save three hundred colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship, on a seventeen-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion, guilt; he must conque... more »r malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding.
He must save lives. And he must take them, in the name of duty ...« less
Imagine a space-bourn Hornblower... An inexperienced midshipman thrust into command by the deaths of officers above him and saddled with a restless crew and demanding passengers... and his own demanding conscience