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    The Captain's Chair: A Science Fiction Adventure: Seeds Among the Stars
    The Captain's Chair: A Science Fiction Adventure: Seeds Among the Stars
    The Captain's Chair: A Science Fiction Adventure: Seeds Among the Stars
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    The Captain's Chair: A Science Fiction Adventure: Seeds Among the Stars

    By Margaret McGaffey Fisk

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    A science fiction adventure for ages 13 and up to enjoy. 

    approx. 10,000 words (52 pages)

    Indie traders value freedom over security. 

    Samantha Marsdom has grand plans to expand the starship she inherited from her father into a profitable indie trader fleet. She has much to prove to herself and her father’s crew, but the path has not been easy. Still, her reputation is growing, and when a prime job comes her way, she’s eager to show the crew, and her childhood friend, she has what it takes to secure their freedom with hefty profits. 

    This is a short story in the Seeds Among the Stars universe. It stands alone and can be read before or after any of the books in the series. An excerpt from book 1, Shafter, is included.

    The novels in Seeds Among the Stars: 

    Book 1: Shafter 

    Book 2: Trainee

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTTO Publishing
    Release dateMar 17, 2016
    ISBN9781631390203
    The Captain's Chair: A Science Fiction Adventure: Seeds Among the Stars
    Author

    Margaret McGaffey Fisk

    Margaret McGaffey Fisk is a storyteller whose tales often cross genres and worlds to bring events and characters to life. She currently writes steampunk, romance, science fiction, and fantasy but will go wherever the story takes her. Foreign Service brat, data entry clerk, veterinary tech, editor, manager, and freelance programmer are among the roles she’s lived, giving depth to the cultures and people that form the heart of her works. As her website is titled, she offers tales to tide you over.

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      The Captain's Chair - Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      Determination is an indie trader requirement.

      ~*~

      Samantha Marsdom has grand plans to expand the starship she inherited from her father into a profitable indie trader fleet. She has much to prove to herself and her father’s crew, but the path has not been easy. Still, her reputation is growing, and when a prime job comes her way, she’s eager to show the crew, and her childhood friend, she has what it takes to secure their freedom with hefty profits.

      Praise for the Books of

      Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      Shafter

      Trina’s life revolves around protecting her family and as a shafter, the lowest of Ceric society, her choices are limited to what she can steal. However, a chance at a new life aboard a colony-bound ship teaches her a new way of life and the price of unquestioned loyalty in this exciting tale, rich with cultural world building and science fiction adventure. This is a story you’ll love, with a tale you won’t want to see end!

      — Lazette Gifford, author of Glory —

      While the heroine yearns for another world, you’ll crave any universe, any tale, created by this exciting new speculative fiction author. In Shafter, McGaffey Fisk delivers an inter-planetary colony system and populates it with complex and sympathetic characters. Travel from the tunnels of Ceric to the stars beyond with a master thief and her master storyteller.

      — Valerie Comer, author of Majai’s Fury —

      Secrets

      Through her young heroine and hero, the author breathes life into a curious, exciting and often dangerous world of steam, sail, sentient machines, loyal friendships and deeds of quiet bravery undertaken in the face of widespread fear and bigotry, to deliver a clever, entertaining and unique new take on Victorian Steampunk.

      — David Bridger, author of A Flight of Thieves (Sky Ships) —

      The Captain’s Chair

      A

      Seeds Among the Stars

      Short Story

      Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      TTO Publishing

      Cover created by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

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      The Captain’s Chair

      Copyright 2016 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

      eBook edition created 2016

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this eBook, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you did not purchase the copy you’re reading, please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s hard work.

      All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published by

      TTO Publishing

      ISBN-10: 1-63139-020-1

      ISBN-13: 978-1-63139-020-3

      Table of Contents

      Back Cover Text

      Praise

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Thank You

      Excerpt from Shafter

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Acknowledgements

      1

      Music pounded against Samantha’s ears as the band started into a new set. The babble of voices raised above the notes in the bar almost drowned Edward out—almost.

      We need steady work, Sam. The crew will follow you anywhere, but some cushion in funds would be nice.

      She wiped her sleeve across her lips and glared at her first mate. He’d held that role since her father died and left the Pimpernel in Samantha’s hands. "We don’t need steady work. We need to be in the right place at

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