Swords and Saddles by Jack Campbell

Author:Jack Campbell
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: The Lost Fleet, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Anthologies & Short Stories, Anthologies, Science Fiction, Military
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Published: 2013-02-11T13:00:00+00:00

Author's Note on Failure to Obey

My second series of books featured the exploits of a new officer in the space Navy who has the misfortune to be appointed the legal officer on his first ship. While handling all of the other duties of a shipboard officer, Paul Sinclair also has to give his commanding officer advice on legal matters based on a four-week-long school. (Yes, the Navy does that kind of thing to you. The Navy did that to me.) After four books, Paul’s saga went into temporary hibernation while I worked on the Lost Fleet story, but people kept asking what happened after the end of that fourth book. One of my own real jobs in the US Navy had involved anti-terrorism, so I had learned a lot about how terrorists work. However, I couldn’t use that knowledge in stories because I didn’t want any real terrorists getting any good tips from whatever scenario I used. It finally occurred to me that I could set a terrorist attack on a space station, using a method of attack that wouldn’t work on Earth, and tell a story about that. And one of the main settings in the Sinclair books was a US Navy space station. Paul had been sent off to Mars at the end of book four, but I still had his partner Lieutenant Jen Shen on that space station, as well as Paul’s old Master-at-Arms Ivan Sharpe. This is what happened to them.

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