Welcome Home/Go Away

by Mike Shepherd

Ebook, 2012

Status

Available

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Fic SF Shepherd

Publication

Penguin Publishing Group

Description

An original novella in the "fast-paced, exciting military SF series"* featuring Kris Longknife. Kris Longknife is back home from her galactic adventures, but her entire Fleet of Discovery has been annihilated. Now, humanity finds itself at war with an alien race more monstrous than anyone could have possibly imagined. General Terrance "Trouble" Tordon, Kris's great-grandfather, is given the task of calming the panicked politicians, some of whom blame Kris for the disaster and would like to eliminate the ever bothersome Commander Longknife. But as "Trouble" struggles to defend his Kris, the level of uncertainty among the civilians leads to more panic and a rush to judgment that makes him believe that he's facing a fight he's bound to lose... Includes a preview of the newest Kris Longknife novel, Furious, available November 2012. *SF Site … (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member gregandlarry

More about Trouble than Kris. A good short story.

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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

Fascinating. The last scene or two of Daring - from Trouble's POV, not Kris'. We get to see some of that manipulation Kris complained about as it happens. It doesn't make what Ray (or Crossenshield) is thinking any clearer - those two are working closely together. McMorrison and Trouble are more on

the outside, manipulated rather than manipulating. It makes Furious better, too, because Trouble is no longer the cipher he's been - we-the-readers have some idea what's going on in his head, possibly more than Kris does.

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