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==Publisher's Synopsis==
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When a hideous accident kills the senior officers of UNS Hibernia it leaves a terrified young officer to save three hundred colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship on a seventeen-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion, guilt; he must conquer malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding. And he must save lives, and he must take them, in the name of duty.
When a hideous accident kills the senior officers of UNS Hibernia it leaves a terrified young officer to save three hundred colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship on a seventeen-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion and guilt; he must conquer malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding. And he must save lives, and take them, in the name of duty.


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Midshipman's Hope is a science fiction novel by David Feintuch, and the first book in the Seafort Saga. It depicts the first voyage of UNNS officer Nicholas Seafort to the colony of Hope Nation, and is followed by Challenger's Hope.

Tagline

Being the first voyage of Nicholas Seafort, U.N.N.S., in the year of our lord 2194.

Publisher's Synopsis

When a hideous accident kills the senior officers of UNS Hibernia it leaves a terrified young officer to save three hundred colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship on a seventeen-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion and guilt; he must conquer malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding. And he must save lives, and take them, in the name of duty.