Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Commerce Raider
    Commerce Raider
    Commerce Raider
    Ebook29 pages23 minutes

    Commerce Raider

    By Louis Shalako

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Hughy Terson, midshipman aboard the commerce raider Aquila, has charge of the prize crew aboard the captured passenger liner Princess. He’s an outlaw in the eyes of the Oligarchy, but the Confederation was merely the first to revolt in an inevitable process of trade liberalization. Getting Aquila to a safe haven is challenge enough. The beautiful and enigmatic Griffa Kathria Marte is another problem. Only a fool would trust her, or fall under her spell. A short and gripping space opera of the not-too-distant future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouis Shalako
    Release dateFeb 22, 2016
    ISBN9781927957936
    Commerce Raider
    Author

    Louis Shalako

    Louis Shalako is the founder of Long Cool One Books and the author of twenty-two novels, numerous novellas and other short stories. Louis studied Radio, Television and Journalism Arts at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology, later going on to study fine art. He began writing for community newspapers and industrial magazines over thirty years ago. His stories appear in publications including Perihelion Science Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Aurora Wolf, Ennea, Wonderwaan, Algernon, Nova Fantasia, and Danse Macabre. He lives in southern Ontario and writes full time. Louis enjoys cycling, swimming and good books.

    Read more from Louis Shalako

    Related to Commerce Raider

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      From Africa To Alabama: Stories Of Survivors Of The Last Slave Ship

      Mar 7, 2024

      The horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are often expressed in numerical terms whose enormity can be difficult to grasp. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, 12.5 million people in Africa were forced onto slave ships bound for the Americas; 10.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Britain's Secret Army

      Jun 11, 2020

      Britain's Secret Army
      8 min read

    • Article

      Into The Jaws Of Hell

      Mar 16, 2023

      Into The Jaws Of Hell
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Man Without a Country

      Jan 5, 2021

      The Man Without a Country
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Party of Ike

      Apr 22, 2018

      The Party of Ike
      5 min read

    • Article

      Sixty Years In The Limelight

      Feb 14, 2023

      Sixty Years In The Limelight
      15 min read

    • Article

      Strife Through A Lens

      Feb 8, 2019

      Strife Through A Lens
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Fallen Angel of Mercy

      Mar 5, 2018

      A Fallen Angel of Mercy
      4 min read

    • Article

      From Slave to Congressman

      Feb 1, 2020

      From Slave to Congressman
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Wing And A Prayer

      Feb 12, 2023

      “Longline to extinction” (February 11), describing decades of work to record the decline of subantarctic albatrosses, struck me deeply. No doubt if more people saw these majestic creatures, they would achieve the profile of other charismatic endanger

      5 min read

    • Article

      Butchering the Mythic West

      Jan 5, 2021

      Butchering the Mythic West
      14 min read

    • Article

      Anniversaries

      Dec 27, 2019

      Anniversaries
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Sep 8, 2022

      An account of the Angels of Mons appears in Great British Ghosts by Aidan Chambers in the chapter “Ghosts at war”, along with the following account by a (unnamed) British lieutenant-colonel: “On the night of 27 August 1914, I was riding along in the

      7 min read

    • Article

      Liberace With Attitude

      Apr 20, 2023

      Carl Abrahamsson Inner Traditions 2022 Pb, 424pp, £18.99, ISBN 9781644112410 Given the scope of available candidates for the title of Devil incarnate, one finds it difficult to imagine that Anton LaVey would even get a look in! LaVey was born in Chic

      8 min read

    • Article

      Fairies And Fake News

      Mar 14, 2024

      Fairies And Fake News
      6 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Apr 5, 2022

      Reviews
      6 min read

    • Article

      How The Vikings Lived

      Oct 1, 2020

      How The Vikings Lived
      2 min read

    • Article

      Top 10 allegories

      Oct 18, 2023

      I used to think that the allegory was a rather straightforward, narrow form: a simple, metaphorical story conceived to deliver a political or moral lesson. But, in fact, it is stretchier and more versatile than that. Allegories, I’ve learned, can be

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Commerce Raider

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Commerce Raider - Louis Shalako

      Commerce Raider

      Louis Shalako

      Copyright 2016 Louis Shalako and Long Cool One Books

      Design: J. Thornton

      ISBN 978-1-927957-93-6

      The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or deceased, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental. Names, places, settings, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination.

      Table of Contents

      Act One

      Act Two

      Act Three

      About Louis Shalako

      Commerce Raider

      Louis Shalako

      Act One

      The passenger liner Princess was three days out from the fueling station at Iota Horologii, 56.2 light years from Sol and ultimately headed for Canopus.

      The Aquila, commerce raider for the Confederation, had the legs on her with the latest generation Emerson Drive.

      They were coming up fast from behind when Princess was hailed.

      Stand and deliver, or surrender. The choice was theirs. Their third option was to be destroyed.

      Captain Luigi Bocanfusca was incensed, but with four thousand passengers and completely defenceless, he had little choice but to heave-to and accept a boarding party. Under the circumstances, that meant ceasing acceleration and holding to a steady course and velocity.

      They’d run a few drills on the trip, passengers and crew. It took a few minutes, half an hour at most. Passengers and crew had to be secured, strapping in to their berths unless in hospital or at duty stations. A whisper in his ear by the Third Officer, a look of sheer consternation and his hurried departure from the head table was the first clue anyone had of anything out of the ordinary.

      In two and a half years, Aquila had taken nineteen prizes, and destroyed shipping totalling two-point-two million tonnes, with an estimated value of three and a half trillion credits. Captain Bocanfusca was also aware from briefings and prior news coverage that Aquila would shoot if provoked, which by

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1