Get Lost
About this ebook
No ship. No crew. Not even a credit to her name. And that's just the start of Hel's problems...
Ambushed, abandoned, and left for dead, Helena Lambinon is lucky to be alive. But that's about the only thing Hel has going for her. She has no ship, no credits, and no one she can trust.
Her partner, Violet, is lost somewhere in the black. To find her, Hel needs a ship. One with a captain she can get close to and nudge in the right direction. One that intends to visit the kind of out-of-the-way places Violet might hide in, like the hundreds of red dwarf systems in the region.
Dova Gevared has a whole ship, half a crew, and no clue about reality. In a galaxy that sees everything in shades of grey, Dova goes out of her way to wear white.
Everyone sees her as naïve, but just because Dova has big plans for the future doesn't mean she can't be practical about her first mission—to survey the local secondary star systems that have been ignored for centuries. She just needs one or two more people on her crew.
When Hel learns the unusually named Polyanna is hiring, part of her thinks the job is exactly what she's looking for. And part of her is afraid its captain will get everyone killed in all the wrong ways, for all the right reasons.
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About the author
Noah Chinn was born in Oshawa, Ontario, and has never really forgiven it for that. Shortly after university, he moved to Vancouver, where he met his future wife, Gillian. He then spent the summer bicycling across Canada, which she thankfully didn’t misinterpret as him trying to get as far away from her as possible.
They moved in Japan for three years, where he taught English yet managed not to learn a word of Japanese. It was during this time that he had a successful cartoon series called Fuzzy Knights, which centered on the exploits of toy animals playing Dungeons & Dragons, and an evil hamster trying to destroy them. Some have called this a cry for help.
He later moved to England with dreams of making it big as a writer. Unfortunately, in the way aspiring actors move to Hollywood and end up as busboys, the closest he came to literary success was working at several bookstores – each of which mysteriously closed down after his stay.
After writing several more manuscripts and moving back to Canada, he found more success in the North American market...
...until his publisher closed down.
But a little thing like that isn't going to stop him.
To combat the hordes of internet algorithms and publication pigeon-holing, he had to split himself into two separate people, one for his science fiction and fantasy, the other for his contemporary stories and mysteries. They flipped a coin to see who would get the "J.D." added to their name. Both have it on good authority to be moderately amusing fellows, with a colourful history and increasingly confusing present.
His work has been published in Amazing Stories magazine, Knights of the Dinner Table magazine, The Globe and Mail, and others.
He, his wife, and their ferret now live in Vancouver.
He tends to wear a hat.
