The Wrong Number by R. S. Breed A frontier tug misses a…
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The Wrong Number by R. S. Breed
A frontier tug misses a routine check-in.
That should mean a comms fault, a lazy beacon, or a tired crew forgetting to answer the channel.
Instead, the *Lodestar* finds the tug exactly where it should be.
**Lights on.**
**Air warm.**
**Systems nominal.**
**Three cups washed and clipped in the galley.**
**No battle damage.**
**No bodies.**
**No crew.**
*The Wrong Number* is a complete standalone hard science fiction novel set in the Fracture Cosmology. No prior reading is required.
It is command SF and frontier mystery rather than laser-barrage action. The story is about rescue doctrine, frontier infrastructure, salvage pressure, old corridor systems, station politics, and a crew trying to understand the wrong incident before it becomes something much larger.
Good fit if you like:
* Competent crews
* Command decisions under pressure
* Starships as workplaces
* Frontier stations and cargo corridors
* Salvage law and old technology
* Mystery built from systems and procedure
* Hard SF that moves without becoming pure action SF
Potential trigger warnings:
Abduction, sabotage, character death, serious injury, grief, space combat, isolation, resource scarcity, and mass-casualty threat.
#entertainment
A frontier tug misses a routine check-in.
That should mean a comms fault, a lazy beacon, or a tired crew forgetting to answer the channel.
Instead, the *Lodestar* finds the tug exactly where it should be.
**Lights on.**
**Air warm.**
**Systems nominal.**
**Three cups washed and clipped in the galley.**
**No battle damage.**
**No bodies.**
**No crew.**
*The Wrong Number* is a complete standalone hard science fiction novel set in the Fracture Cosmology. No prior reading is required.
It is command SF and frontier mystery rather than laser-barrage action. The story is about rescue doctrine, frontier infrastructure, salvage pressure, old corridor systems, station politics, and a crew trying to understand the wrong incident before it becomes something much larger.
Good fit if you like:
* Competent crews
* Command decisions under pressure
* Starships as workplaces
* Frontier stations and cargo corridors
* Salvage law and old technology
* Mystery built from systems and procedure
* Hard SF that moves without becoming pure action SF
Potential trigger warnings:
Abduction, sabotage, character death, serious injury, grief, space combat, isolation, resource scarcity, and mass-casualty threat.
#entertainment
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