Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Searching for the Fleet
The seventh book in the ”Diving” universe science fiction series.
Publication year: 2018
Format: Audio
Running time: 12 hours 51 minutes
Narrator: Jennifer van Dyck
Just like the other books in the series, this one is also made up of several novellas, among them Dix and two set in Coop's and Yash's pasts.
When starship Ivoire jumped into fold space and was stranded 5000 years into the future, Captain Jonathan “Coop” Cooper and engineer Yash Zarlengo were just two of it's crew. Some of the crew left but most are working for the Lost Souls Corporation which tried to find out what happened to the Fleet that the Ivoire was part of. In the previous novella “Runabout”, Yash got a lot of data and she's returned to the Corporation's headquarters to analyze it.
Five years ago Coop's second in command, Dix Pompiono, was desperate to return to his own time. When he finally realizes that that's not likely to happen, ever, he kills himself. Yash strongly suspects that he also tampered with the ship's very dangerous anacapa drive. Coop evacuates the ship and they start to work, looking for any clues.
In the ”present” time, Coop and Yash analyze the data from the runabout with single-minded obsession. Eventually, they get clues to another base. The book also has two long flashbacks, individual novellas, about Coop's and Yash's past. Coop's section (Lieutenant Tightass) is his first assignment on a dignity class vessel, which tries to save other DV vessels which have vanished. The captain seems to be lax and so is her crew. Yash's flashback (Advanced Anacapa Theory) happens during her time at school when she's learning to fix anacapa drives.
Many of the threads in the previous books lead here: what Coop and Yash find. Unfortunately, I didn't really care for the flashbacks and the search wasn't that interesting but things picked up near the end. I guess I should've relistened the previous books so that they would be fresh in my mind.
Coop and Yash are the POV characters and Boss is only mentioned a couple of times. To my surprise, I didn't really miss Boss. Of course, the previous books also didn't have Boss because they're set in different time periods.
We don't get all the answers in this book, indeed we get some more questions about the present.
A very good addition to the series and I'm intrigued to know what happens next.
Publication year: 2018
Format: Audio
Running time: 12 hours 51 minutes
Narrator: Jennifer van Dyck
Just like the other books in the series, this one is also made up of several novellas, among them Dix and two set in Coop's and Yash's pasts.
When starship Ivoire jumped into fold space and was stranded 5000 years into the future, Captain Jonathan “Coop” Cooper and engineer Yash Zarlengo were just two of it's crew. Some of the crew left but most are working for the Lost Souls Corporation which tried to find out what happened to the Fleet that the Ivoire was part of. In the previous novella “Runabout”, Yash got a lot of data and she's returned to the Corporation's headquarters to analyze it.
Five years ago Coop's second in command, Dix Pompiono, was desperate to return to his own time. When he finally realizes that that's not likely to happen, ever, he kills himself. Yash strongly suspects that he also tampered with the ship's very dangerous anacapa drive. Coop evacuates the ship and they start to work, looking for any clues.
In the ”present” time, Coop and Yash analyze the data from the runabout with single-minded obsession. Eventually, they get clues to another base. The book also has two long flashbacks, individual novellas, about Coop's and Yash's past. Coop's section (Lieutenant Tightass) is his first assignment on a dignity class vessel, which tries to save other DV vessels which have vanished. The captain seems to be lax and so is her crew. Yash's flashback (Advanced Anacapa Theory) happens during her time at school when she's learning to fix anacapa drives.
Many of the threads in the previous books lead here: what Coop and Yash find. Unfortunately, I didn't really care for the flashbacks and the search wasn't that interesting but things picked up near the end. I guess I should've relistened the previous books so that they would be fresh in my mind.
Coop and Yash are the POV characters and Boss is only mentioned a couple of times. To my surprise, I didn't really miss Boss. Of course, the previous books also didn't have Boss because they're set in different time periods.
We don't get all the answers in this book, indeed we get some more questions about the present.
A very good addition to the series and I'm intrigued to know what happens next.