By: Carol Hightshoe
Full-Throttle Space Tales #1
Genre: Science Fiction
Flying Pen Press
August 1, 2008
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Featuring:
252 pages
ISBN: 0981895700
EAN: 9780981895703
Paperback
Book Summary
Space Pirates it the first anthology of the Full-Throttle Space Tales series. Space Pirates contains fifteen swashbuckling tales of pirates in space, by established and rising-star authors. The contents of this treasure chest of adventure include these swarthy tales of deep- space piracy:
Eating Vacuum, by Robert E Vardeman: An asteroid miner matches wits with a desperate pirate who is short on oxygen.
On the Even of the Last Great Ratings War, by David Boop: Genetically engineered animals battle humans for control of the space-borne airwaves.
Adrift, by Carol Hightshoe: The Flying Dutchman legend takes to outer space.
Bad Traveling, by Neal Asher: Pirates sailing the seas of a distant planet find their match in alien monsters of the deep.
Carbon Copy, by Denielle Ackley-McPhail: Recently demoted Private Alexander suspects that one of the ships of the space fleet are bearing false colors.
Space Pirate Cookies, by C.J. Henderson: Aliens are mocking humanity, and that means war.
For a Job Well Done, by David Lee Summers: A ruthless pirate finds himself rescuing a victim of human trafficking on the planet Epsilon Indi 2.
Lunacy by Anna Paradox: The moon is being taxed to death, and a teenage girl is caught in the middle by a satellite laser weapon.
The Claims Adjustor, by David B. Riley: An insurance claims adjustor from Mars wants to ferret out the pirates who are driving up the cost of shipping from Earth.
Never Lie to Yourself, by Uncle River: When a young boy marooned in a space habitat disaster is rescued by bloodthirsty pirates, what exactly does he owe his rescuers?
Star Wench, by Daniel M. Hoyt: Captain Beech of the HMS Bounty IV must match his wits against a notorious pirate to save his spaceship's crew.
Searching the Vastness of Space, by Alan L. Lickiss: Rory is a bureaucrat who believes he has discovered proof of interstellar piracy, but finds that pirates are not always what they seem.
Captain Barti Ddu, by M.H. Bonham: Morgan Roberts' life is saved during an attack by Atolian Pirates by an Eighteenth Century Buccaneer.
Earth-Saturn Transit, by W.A. Hoffman: Pirates in deep space are bound by debilitating circuits in their heads, but where there are pirates, there will be mutineers.
Ship's Daughter, by Pamela D. Lloyd and Karl Grotegut: A pirate's daughter must prove herself to the rest of the crew, without losing her humanity.