Navvies’ Flight: Another Space Opera: Tales From a Stinking, Star-Crossed Milky Way
About
Fly a ship.
Save the Milk.
Try not to blow up suns.
Registered Smuggler Polla’s Ottrava’s grown fond of her trio of desperate war criminals. She’s even fallen in love.
But everything her life is still supernova-shaped... and that’s not even funny, considering it’s all Ledas Starfire’s fault, the dead woman who CAUSED a supernova three years ago.
Polla tries to keep lightyears between herself and Starfire’s reputation, but it’s tough to do when she’s flying the dead woman’s ship, employed by the dead woman’s twin, and on a mission to kill the dead woman’s husband. That genocidal murderer’s crap keeps blowing back, forcing Polla to relive Starfire’s memories in the woman’s ship. And every time she tries to do something good, people try and kill her! Fond as she is of her companions, she can’t help but think some of it’s their fault.
A reckoning is coming, and Polla’s about to find out there’s only two people in the Milk who can truly understand what she’s going through. One is Starfire’s ex, the madman who’s reshaping planets with a shapeshifting biophage--the man they’re on a mission to kill.
The other’s a pregnant farmgirl, also named “Polla Ottrava.” And, funny thing? Them sharing a name’s no coincidence...
But after all the mistakes, it sure feels good to be one of the good guys. They are the good guys... right?