A Game of Battleships by Toby Frost

Author:Toby Frost [Frost, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Steampunk, Toby Frost, Myrmidon, A Game of Battleships, Space Captain Smith
Publisher: Myrmidon Books
Published: 2013-08-09T14:00:00+00:00

HMS Chimera slid out of the darkness of space like a metal glacier and rumbled into range of Wellington Prime. Before it, the space station glinted in the three nearby suns, its docking rings and gravity-generators spinning smoothly as though it was a great clockwork mechanism that turned the planets around it.

The crew of the John Pym stood with Captain Fitzroy in one of the Chimera’s viewing lounges and watched the approach. Only one ship was docked with the station. It looked like a freighter, but Smith saw unusual hatch-lines down the side and large cargo pods under the wings. He wondered if it might be one of the Empire’s Q-ships, disguised to trick enemy vessels into making a dishonourable sneak attack and equipped to punish them for such unsportsmanlike behaviour.

‘See you in the airlock, chaps,’ said Felicity Fitzroy as she strode past, the Bhagparsian cat clinging to her shoulder like a pink striped parrot. The doors hissed closed behind her.

Smith sighed. There was a lot to be worried about.

‘Look on the bright side,’ Carveth said. ‘One, we’re getting off this ship. Two, the Edenites aren’t chasing you. And three, nor is Captain Fitzroy.’

Out of three, she was about half right.

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