Seafort Saga
7 primary works • 9 total works
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A hideous accident kills the senior officer of UNS Hibernia, leaving a terrified young officer to take 300 colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship, on a 17-month gauntlet to reach Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue, Nicholas Seafort must save lives and take them, in the name of duty.
An alien attack and an admiral's betrayal leave a wounded Commander Nicholas Seafort stranded aboard a doomed ship of arrogant colonists and hostile street children. His crew is rebelious, his ship short of weapons, fuel and food- easy prey for the alien predators now massing to attack. Only Nick Seafort's will stand between his charges and violent death. But is he merely postponing their end?
Recovering from injuries at Hope Nation, Captain Nicholas Seafort is appointed liaison to the wealthy planters of the verdant colony planet and finds himself called upon to halt a revolution and rally his people against alien invaders.
Commandant Nicolas Seafort is a legend to the masses, an idol to his hundreds of teen cadets. They don't see the tormented soul of a man who believes that merciless duty has led him to betray every friend he ever loved, every ideal he ever cherished. After a life-long ordeal, Seafort needs tme. Time to reflect. Time to heal. Instead he is pulled into a maelstrom of crisis, corruption and danger as the helpless, unprepared Earth faces annhilation from a hord of alien attackers. Alone at the centre of a cosmic apocalypse, Nick Seafort must face his final battle...and his most unforgiveable sin.
As UN GenSec, Nicholas Seafort is the most powerful man on Earth. Obsessed with honour and faith, Seafort remains a driven individual who follows his own uncompromising sense of what is right. In particular, he has fought to protect humanity by diverting resources to ever larger, more heavily armed starships. But there has been a price - global ecological collapse has ravaged the Earth. Even as Seafort, confronted with the results of his stubborn course, turns his attention to the growing calamity, an orbital assault threatens the future of all mankind. '(The Seafort Saga) is probably the best military SF of the last twenty years, and among the best SF of any kind' SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
The war against the aliens is over and humanity has won - just. But the price has been high: the Earth's ecology has been shattered, her colonies all but abandoned and the galactic economy lies in ruins. For the surviving colonists of Hope Nation there can be no promise of salvation from home. If they are to survive they must act quickly but Nicolas Seafort knows that time is running out for the people of Hope - and even he may not be able to help them. And as Hope Nation slides inexorable towards civil war, an old enemy returns...