Morgue Ship

Sam Burnett has spent ten years aboard the Constellation, a space morgue ship hauling the dead of an interplanetary war back to Earth, and the work has worn him down to the bone. In the wreckage of battle, his days are measured in silence, cold machinery, and the endless handling of bodies, until even survival feels like a kind of exhaustion. Then Burnett and his younger partner Rice make a shocking discovery: one of the supposed corpses is still alive. Lethla, a high-ranking enemy official and Kriere's majordomo, has survived by hiding behind an advanced glassite chrysalis mask. What begins as a routine recovery turns deadly when Lethla, armed and desperate, reveals that he and Kriere escaped a destroyed flagship and concealed themselves among the dead. Now he demands Burnett's help in rescuing Kriere, who is alive and drifting toward Venus. Bleak, tense, and haunted by war's aftermath, this story transforms a ship of the dead into the center of a covert struggle where duty, fear, and survival collide. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.