The Wreck of the Untranslatable: The First Tale of the Scape Grace (Tales of the Scape Grace)

Captain Evgeny Lerner is struggling to maintain his mastery of the pirate starship Scape Grace and her crew of pan-galactic rogues. He just wants to guide her toward profit and away from disaster, by navigating the shrinking shadows of an expanding galactic Collective. Stuck with a giant, violent, authoritarian first mate; a half-computer communications officer; a xenophobic ship’s doctor; a psychotic, saurian weapons officer; a genetically engineered engineer escaped from his collectivist species; and a combat crew culled from the worst refuse of two systems, Captain Lerner faces plenty of challenges. When a raid goes wrong and Scape Grace is caught defenseless, the pirates find themselves pressed into service escorting a lost ship from an unknown alien race. The unique ship with an untranslatable name proves that even in an increasingly civilized galaxy, surrounded by some of its oddest renegades, a weary ship’s captain can still be surprised by something new. The Wreck of the Untranslatable is the first novel set in the Empyrean Dreams universe and the first story in a series about the crew of the Scape Grace.