Cover art: Steve Hickman

I’m using English and Metric weights and measures throughout Lt. Leary Commanding, as I did in With the Lightnings.  I wouldn’t bother mentioning this, but the decision seems to concern some people.  I’m doing it for the same reason that I’m writing the novel in English instead of inventing a language for the characters of future millennia to speak.

I’d like to note for those who’re interested that the orders in Chapter Nine are a close paraphrase of those which sent the frigate USS Congress to Hawaii in 1845.  Here as elsewhere, I prefer to borrow from reality rather than invent it.

–Dave Drake

Lt. Leary, Commanding. RCN Series. 2000, Riverdale, NY: Baen. 432 p. 0671578758. $24.00.
————– 2000, New York, NY: SFBC. 432 p. SFBC 05840. $11.98.
————– 2001, Riverdale, NY: Baen. 556 p. 0671319922 (pb). $7.99.
————– 2008, Newark, NJ: Audible Frontiers [Audiobook]. 16 hours 28 mins.[Available for download from Audible.com]