To Discover and Preserve (Fiction)

First Edition

First collection of Fleet short stories.

Publication Data

• Series: Fleet Collections
• Book: 1
• Publication Date:
• Editions:
• Revisions:
• Reader-Commissioned Book

Tags and Content Notes

• Tags: adventure, comedy, conflict resolution, aliens, rescue missions, AI
• Rating: PG (references to violence, fake swearing, implied romance)

Table of Contents

• "Leadership Lessons"
• "Constellations"
• "In the Line of Duty"
• "Dark Lighthouse"
• "Season's Meaning"
• "The Mayer Directive"
• "Stormfront"
• "Gaps"
• "Every Man, Woman, and Idiot"

==Quick summary of stories==

SPOILERS! SLIGHT SPOILERS Spoilers!

Part 1: Women of the Stardancer

• Alysha's boss has really bad trouble with heights. Alysha helps her.
• A blunder during a simple EVA repair, creative time passing, pickup, and after action report. A theme of the need for self promotion.
• Platies! and Alysha risks her life to save some Dragons fleeing their empire. Time crunch and sudden expansion of the mission are the perils.
• Another person vs their psychology: Taylithia shows fear of intimacy for the first time, more in another story.
• Christmas short story, small child gets into trouble with imagination not being reality. Alysha to the rescue!

Part 2: Other Swords

• The reason for initial restrictions on Digital Persons on ships. Crispin's problems' origin story.

History

• Funded via Kickstarter November 12, 2021, in a campaign that included another Alysha series novel as a stretch goal (attained when the project closed at $10,222).

Characters

Arete

Cecil Mayer

Darian Bakawar

Gardenia Segal

Isidore Wyatt

Mike Beringwaite

Stanzi Billings

Tiriam Meyer