A Galaxy Unknown
A novel by Thomas DePrima
A young ensign, recently graduated from the Northern
Hemisphere Space Academy, is awakened abruptly in
the middle of the night by alarms, flashing lights,
and dire messages to abandon ship. The petite blonde
yanks on some clothes and races through the
spaceship in a desperate search for an available
life pod-- but it appears all have already departed.
So begins the epic story of Jenetta Carver®. Get a
tight grip on your book or eReader and prepare for
an exciting adventure like few others because our
heroine is ready to take names and kick butts from
one end of the galaxy to the other. She may be
small, but she has an intellect as large as Colossus
of Rhodes and makes General Sun-Tzu look like an
amateur military enthusiast.
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From the back cover of the print version:
For all of her young life, Jenetta Carver® had
dreamed of cruising between the stars in a powerful
spaceship, but nothing in her visions of a bright
future even remotely resembled the perilous
situation she now faced.
Lt. Sabella, her face slightly flushed from physical
exertion, returned from her task of readying the
ship’s weapons and crossed the bridge to stand by
the left arm of Jenetta’s command chair. “What’s the
plan, Captain?” she asked. Though an anxious look
swathed her face, there was unmistakable
resoluteness in her voice.
Jenetta breathed in deeply and then released it
before answering in a voice lowered so that it only
carried to her XO. “We’re going to have to slash and
burn,” she replied.
“Slash and burn?” Gloria questioned, equally sotto
voce.
“We don’t yet know what we’re facing, so we can’t
prepare anything tactically sophisticated. We
certainly won’t be able to arrange for a convenient
artificial mountain as cover this time, and it’s a
given that whatever Raider ships we’re about to face
are considerably better armed than we are. So—
surprise will perforce serve as our main weapon. I
intend to slash our way in with as much speed as
practicable, dump our envelope, and then burn down
any enemy ships that we encounter before they can do
the same to us.”
“That’s it?” Gloria asked, wide-eyed. “That’s your
whole plan? Shoot them before they shoot us?”