Kizuna: Or How To Lose a Spaceship and Still Go Places – Jamie Watt 


 

Enoch is a down-on-his-luck salvage pilot who is trapped in his job, wants to go home but has nothing to go home to, and has no way of affording it anyway since his best friend and business partner left him for a masseuse job on Mars.

Enoch needs someone to talk to while in the lonely depths of space, so he picks up a cheap interface for his AI. On their voyage, they are kidnapped by pirates, meet a famous engineer lost in time, chase a mysterious (possibly alien) ship, and end up in the crosshairs of Earth’s monolithic, bureaucratic, and almost sociopathically uncaring System Navy, as Enoch explores what it means to be part of something bigger than he could ever have imagined.

"Watt’s narrative tone is delightfully snarky..."

"The narrative is original and full of apt observations..."

"An entertaining, amusing, and relatable SF tale with diverse characters."
-Kirkus Reviews

Read more at https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/61923/kizuna-histories-of-a-universe-that-hasnt-happened

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Subgenres: Adventure, First Contact, Galactic Empire / Colonization, Humorous

Date first published:  June 13, 2022

On Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Website: http://www.jamiewatt.com

Biography: I hate stuff like this. It’s hard to describe yourself without either seeming too modest or too confident or too insecure. So, I’m Jamie Watt. I was born in Canada to Scottish parents and immigrated to Japan at the age of 28, where I’ve lived for the last 18 years. I play music and video games, like hiking and barbecuing (of all sorts), and have been a professional translator since the world shook on the 11th of March 2011. I’ve failed at a lot of things, succeeded at a few, but ultimately the most important thing about me is that I am surrounded by people I love, and all of them try their best not to punch me whenever they get the chance.

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Cover artist name: Paolo Faresi

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Editor/Formatter’s name: George Hahn

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