Fleet: Dereliction

Fleet #3

by Andrew D. Thaler

“Captain Spat, father of Bosun Salmon, you stand accused of mutiny for allowing the theft of NC-3502-WM by negligence in your duties as both father to your daughter and mentor to your crew! How do you plead?”

The fleet is in chaos. Their best ship has been stolen. With her authority slipping away, the Admiral must seize command, root out the mutineers, and recover her stolen vessel. But, on the other side of the Reach, the trio - Croaker, Snapper, and Salmon - have reached their destination, the mysterious derelict that has been supplying the fleet for months.

The darkest secrets in the fleet will rise to the surface.

Fleet is an adventure in serial self-publishing. Part 3: Dereliction encompasses chapters 7 through 9. New parts will be released the first Monday of every month through the end of 2013.

53 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 2013

About the author

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.