The Napoleonic War. A Royal Navy warship is ordered to pursue an enemy frigate to the icy waters far south in the Indian Ocean. There it must capture the enemy ship and retrieve a mysterious sea-chest, contents unknown, failure not permitted.For the determined young captain and his eager crew, this already dangerous mission turns into a battle with a mysterious vessel that appears not in the sea, but, unbelievably, impossibly, in the sky above.But ...

SHE WAS JUST A CHARACTER. AT FIRST.But over time, through airports and cafés, cheap hotels and ancient cities, she changed. And when the story was ready, she wasn’t just in it. She was running it.This is the short, sharp, metafictional tale of OCTAVIA—a fictional woman who begins as an idea and ends as something else entirely: A galactic supervillain with a mind of her own.Think My Fair Lady meets A Star Is Born, reimagined through the lens of science fiction and li...