“My point is, there are a lot of people ‘just following orders’ around here. Some of them are becoming captains and some of them are being killed. So you should think very hard about where you want to be the next time someone comes to you and asks ‘why’. Because ‘I was just following orders’ isn’t good enough. Not anymore."
The Admiral's secret has been revealed and the fleet's most loyal captain must pay the price for his action. As Croaker, Salmon, and Snapper race back to bring the Admiral and her conspirators to trial, the Admiral does all she can to stop them. The survival of the fleet depends on the actions of a few young sailors and the dedication of its captains.
Only one thing is certain, everything is about to change.
Fleet is an adventure in serial self-publishing. Part 4: Horizon is the epic conclusion of the adventure that began with Fleet: The Reach, Fleet: Wide Open, and Fleet: Dereliction.
Andrew D. Thaler is a deep-sea ecologist, conservation biologist, science writer, and occasional science fiction author. His actual scientific writing can be found in the journals BMC Evolutionary Biology, Fungal Ecology, and Marine Policy, among others. He is the founder and senior editor of Southern Fried Science, where most of his popular science writing is found. His science fiction stories are featured in Eno Magazine and, inexplicably, Nature. He lives in California with his wife and a pair of very stubborn goats.