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In this collection of short stories, New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell explores what kinds of complications mankind might face as our horizons increase.

‘Lady Be Good:’ The Lady Be Good is an previous ship, jogging obscure routes with her loyal initial officer Kilcannon and reclusive captain. When Kilcannon chooses to recovery the survivors of an attack on the Vestral Company ship, a mysterious brand-new passenger thanks him by requesting difficult queries about the Lady, with unexpected answers.

In ‘ about Advertisement Astra Kyrie Eleison,’ the Verio shipwrecked hundreds of years ago on an out-of-the-way globe, as well as the descendants of the ship’s survivors have gotten along aswell as they can by following a orders that were offered to them. However when the Bellegrange happens on a rescue mission, her captain must reckon with the unpredicted social order on the planet.

In ‘Do No Damage,’ a ship is so technologically advanced that it can fix itself-but turning on the keys may not be the very best idea. And in ‘Down the Rabbit Opening,’ some failed efforts at faster-than-light travel qualified prospects to a novel approach: sending an untested Naval captain out in a space ship to see if he can figure out what’s gone wrong.