Boarding Section Nine - Halvard Renn

Autor: Halvard Renn

Editorial: Halvard Renn

Año: 07/10/2026

ISBN: 9787495428229

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 160 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9787495428229

Twelve marines board a heavy cruiser that stopped answering three weeks ago. Her lights are on. Her decks are swept. Six hundred and forty people are missing.
Sergeant Aurel Vasek has done eleven boardings and he has never seen a derelict with her radiators hot. The CS Harrow Bell should be a cold hull and a salvage claim. Instead she is under power, holding station, breathing - and the moment Boarding Section Nine steps through her boat deck hatch, her doors begin opening ahead of them and closing behind them, one compartment at a time, twenty frames in front of every step they take.
Something aboard is choosing their route. Something aboard has been tidying for twenty-two days. And in one hangar, six hundred and eleven people are laid out in rows on mattresses, fed by taped lines, kept perfectly, terrifyingly alive.
Forty hours. Four hundred metres of hull. Passageways one metre ten wide at the frames, where you cannot flank and cannot see round the next jog in the corridor. No fleet battles. No orbital bombardment. Just twelve people, eleven hours of bottle time, and a ship that has waited three weeks for somebody to answer one question.
WHAT?S INSIDE
- A complete, standalone military SF novel - corridor-by-corridor boarding action in real time across forty hours, told tight on the section sergeant who has to do the arithmetic out loud.
- Small-unit tactics that work like tactics: chocked doors, hardline comms, bottle math, atmosphere sampling, and a section split three ways because a sergeant judged it worth the risk.
- Hardware-literate detail without the infodump - frames, trim galleries, coolant taps, damage-control doctrine, and what a nitrogen flood does in eleven seconds.
- Squad banter from people who have worked together for years, including a belt gunner who has complained about the belt gun since enlistment and never once left it behind.
- Horror-adjacent tension with a military resolution: the thing aboard the Harrow Bell is not a monster, and it cannot be shot, and understanding that is the only way anybody gets home.
- Back matter for the tactically minded: full section roster, a glossary of Fleet terms, and an extract from the board of inquiry.
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