When his mother dies, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael finds hi
Quarter share: a trader's tale from the golden age of the solar clipper
โ Scribed by Nathan Lowell
- Publisher
- Durandus
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Series
- Golden age of the solar clipper 1
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Fairfax, VA
- ISBN
- 1940575001
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
What if we sent freighters instead of frigates? In a universe run by corporations, where profit matters more than life, how can an orphan with no skills, no money, and no prospects survive? When Ishmael Wang's mother dies in a senseless accident, he's given a choice. Leave the planet on his own or the company will remove him. To avoid deportation, Ishmael finds work as a mess deck attendant on an intersteller freighter. Find out what Ishmael must do to earn his Quarter Share.
โฆ Subjects
Life on other planets -- Fiction
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