
- 352 pages
- English
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Mechanical Failure
About this book
A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly rejoins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war.
The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler.
But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work.
With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.
The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler.
But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work.
With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Asses to Ashes
- Chapter 2: Second Chances
- Chapter 3: Speedbumps
- Chapter 4: White Gloves
- Chapter 5: Big Orange Button
- Chapter 6: Barber Bot
- Chapter 7: Mechanical Failure
- Chapter 8: Too Stupid to Be an Ensign
- Chapter 9: Ein Klein Flottenchef
- Chapter 10: A Carefully Thought-Out Decision to Get the Hell Out of Dodge
- Chapter 11: Oh, Chute
- Chapter 12: A Man and His Droid
- Chapter 13: Military Unintelligence
- Chapter 14: Improperganda
- Chapter 15: Big Red Data
- Chapter 16: The Military Never Said Anything About War
- Chapter 17: Stick This in You
- Chapter 18: Go Boom
- Chapter 19: A Breach of Protocol
- Chapter 20: The Legend of Ticket
- Chapter 21: The German-Irish Inflammation Conflagration
- Chapter 22: The Gravity of the Situation
- Chapter 23: Captain Rogers
- Acknowledgments
- āCommunication Failureā Teaser
- About Joe Zieja
- Copyright