A new captain, a first command, and a ship that refuses every protocol thrown at it. Marcus Cole gets field-promoted nineteen days into the Resolute's first deployment when his commander's diagnosis forces her out. The mission was supposed to be a survey of an odd sub-junction. What's waiting there isn't a survey.
The Long Watch is the adventure thread of the universe: five books, one captain, twenty-eight years at the deep frontier. This is where it starts and you don't need anything else first.
- Amazon (Kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited)
- Read the opening and see every other store: https://fracturedcosmology.xyz/books/shakedown/
- Free audiobook on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zKIuaYKu4
- Marcus is a captain who shows what he feels. Did that read as strength or weakness to you at the start?
- The moment he breaks protocol. Were you with him?
- Geneva's response versus the crew's. Which one did you think was right?
Spoilers for this book are fine below. It's the book's own thread. Anything from a later book or another series, wrap it in [spoiler] tags so nobody gets ambushed.