In the _New York Times_ bestselling Lost Fleet series, author Jack Campbell has taken readers and Captain Black Jack Geary on a fast-paced journey of conquest across vast reaches of space. Now, in the three novellas contained in _Swords and Saddles_ , first in a series of short fiction collections f
Swords and saddles: short stories: ssc
β Scribed by Jack Campbell
- Publisher
- Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series, author Jack Campbell has taken readers and Captain Black Jack Geary on a fast-paced journey of conquest across vast reaches of space. Now, in the three novellas contained in Swords and Saddles , first in a series of short fiction collections from Jack Campbell, readers can explore the entire universe of Campbell's fiction. A new author's note accompanies each story.
Begin by entering "The Rift." Answering a distress call from a colonized planet, a combat team finds themselves ambushed. They manage to scrabble their way to a remote research facility in the countryside, joining a group of schoolchildren that have holed up with the researchers β three groups united in fear that their lives will last only as long as they can avoid discovery by the aliens that have come to their planet. When the aliens do come, it becomes clear that despite all the years of research, the humans' understanding of the aliens is woefully...
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