Sneak Peek—Stories from The Expanding Universe Anthology #4: ‘Duty’ by Bill Patterson
There are 20 short stories in the latest volume of Craig Martelle’s The Expanding Universe anthologies. Today, with his permission, we are taking a sneak peek at the start of Bill Patterson’s story, ‘Duty’. Here’s how it begins: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The greatest problem with doing one’s duty sometimes it deciding exactly where one’s duty lies. Lieutenant James Benison leaned back in his command chair, surveying the crew of his small corvette. It wasn't his first command, but a runabout just doesn't count. Not when your corvette mounts enough weaponry to equal all the bombs released from both sides of World War II. Sometimes, James marveled that the Grand Fleet of Earth would allow someone of his age to command a vessel capable of such destruction, but the constant war losses had the Fleet really dipping into its reserves recently. "Lieutenant, we have a contact at three twenty-one, range ninety-two AU...