"JAG in Space: Failure to Obey"
Sep. 26th, 2012 06:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomA couple of days ago I revisited old literary friends. It’s been a few years since John G. Hemry’s last novel in a series that everybody but its publisher more wisely called “JAG in Space”. I knew that Hemry has later written a related novella, which he recently provided to those of us who asked at the recent worldcon.
The story “Failure to Obey”, originally published in Analog’s January/February 2009 issue, is told from the point-of-view of Jen Shen. Paul Sinclair, her husband and central character of the novels, has been exiled to Mars after annoying Important People in the Navy one time too many for doing the right thing. The story begins with a terrorist attack on an American military space station and, in the aftermath, her friend, master-at-arms Sharpe, is tried for failing to obey an order, an act that some say could have led to the destruction of the station. Jen, who had herself once gone thru a harsh trial for criminal negligence, can’t stand by and she enlists the help of the military counsel who had tried her.
Enjoyable, and by the way Hemry, this time writing as Jack Campbell, will have novel “Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight” out next week, another of his stories where people do the right thing, whether or not they were planning to.
The story “Failure to Obey”, originally published in Analog’s January/February 2009 issue, is told from the point-of-view of Jen Shen. Paul Sinclair, her husband and central character of the novels, has been exiled to Mars after annoying Important People in the Navy one time too many for doing the right thing. The story begins with a terrorist attack on an American military space station and, in the aftermath, her friend, master-at-arms Sharpe, is tried for failing to obey an order, an act that some say could have led to the destruction of the station. Jen, who had herself once gone thru a harsh trial for criminal negligence, can’t stand by and she enlists the help of the military counsel who had tried her.
Enjoyable, and by the way Hemry, this time writing as Jack Campbell, will have novel “Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight” out next week, another of his stories where people do the right thing, whether or not they were planning to.
