Lost Voices 8: Captain Empirical by Sam Nicholson
Captain Empirical
By Sam Nicholson
27 Apr, 2000
Lost Voices
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Captain Empirical
Sam Nicholson
Ace Books [1979]
342 pages
Synopsis: A fix-up from several short stories published in Analog, framed by a story in which the main character, Captain Schuster, faces unanticipated danger in the asteroid belt, is feared lost and the various reactions of the folks back home during the time they think he is probably dead. Most of the stories [shown as personal recording played back by people breaking into Schuster’s private files for their own individual reasons, some self-serving, others self-serving in different ways] take place at sea: