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Lieutenant Year 8
(2026)(The eighth book in the Officer of the Union Space Fleet series)
A novel by Joe Durham
Montgomery Hale’s newest friend has fourteen weeks to live. And a lifetime of plans.
After prison, a rebellion, and a dear friend’s loss he still doesn’t know how to face, Montgomery is back aboard the Providence. He’s earned his promotion to full lieutenant. Now he has a navigation station, friends he’s trying to put things right with, and a survey mission through a remote cluster of black holes.
Then the ship answers a distress call, and Montgomery comes back carrying a newborn.
Dovet is Ossuri. They’ll be walking in days, an adult in weeks, and dead before Montgomery would normally think to arrange a second visit. Fourteen weeks is an ordinary Ossuri lifespan. But there’s nothing ordinary about watching someone grow up between your shifts.
Dovet wants to learn how the ship works. Beat Montgomery at his own board game. Meet his friends. Learn to swear properly—a subject on which some of the crew have considerable expertise.
And near the end of every Ossuri life comes opus: a brief period of extraordinary mental and physical ability, devoted to something worth leaving behind. Dovet hasn’t decided what theirs will be. There’s music to make, a universe to understand, human customs to learn, and rather a lot of people offering advice.
Meanwhile, vast waves of distorted space are circulating through the black-hole cluster, threatening the colonies along their paths. The Providence can protect its own hull, but protecting a world will require something nobody aboard knows how to do—and the records left by Dovet’s parent may explain why their last attempt failed.
Now tens of thousands of lives may depend on what Dovet can accomplish in a single extraordinary week—and whether Montgomery can fly the deadly course their work demands.
Montgomery can plot a course past a black hole. But he has no idea how to say goodbye to another friend.
Lieutenant Year 8 continues An Officer of the Union Space Fleet, with dangerous rescues, black hole flybys, alien friendships, and a young officer discovering that saving someone’s life and sharing it with them are two very different things. Best read after the first seven books.
Genre: Science Fiction
After prison, a rebellion, and a dear friend’s loss he still doesn’t know how to face, Montgomery is back aboard the Providence. He’s earned his promotion to full lieutenant. Now he has a navigation station, friends he’s trying to put things right with, and a survey mission through a remote cluster of black holes.
Then the ship answers a distress call, and Montgomery comes back carrying a newborn.
Dovet is Ossuri. They’ll be walking in days, an adult in weeks, and dead before Montgomery would normally think to arrange a second visit. Fourteen weeks is an ordinary Ossuri lifespan. But there’s nothing ordinary about watching someone grow up between your shifts.
Dovet wants to learn how the ship works. Beat Montgomery at his own board game. Meet his friends. Learn to swear properly—a subject on which some of the crew have considerable expertise.
And near the end of every Ossuri life comes opus: a brief period of extraordinary mental and physical ability, devoted to something worth leaving behind. Dovet hasn’t decided what theirs will be. There’s music to make, a universe to understand, human customs to learn, and rather a lot of people offering advice.
Meanwhile, vast waves of distorted space are circulating through the black-hole cluster, threatening the colonies along their paths. The Providence can protect its own hull, but protecting a world will require something nobody aboard knows how to do—and the records left by Dovet’s parent may explain why their last attempt failed.
Now tens of thousands of lives may depend on what Dovet can accomplish in a single extraordinary week—and whether Montgomery can fly the deadly course their work demands.
Montgomery can plot a course past a black hole. But he has no idea how to say goodbye to another friend.
Lieutenant Year 8 continues An Officer of the Union Space Fleet, with dangerous rescues, black hole flybys, alien friendships, and a young officer discovering that saving someone’s life and sharing it with them are two very different things. Best read after the first seven books.
Genre: Science Fiction
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