Sea Changes by Linda Grant De Pauw

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RAGING HORMONES IN A SPACE NAVY

Aboard HMS Lafayette in the closing years of the twenty-first century, the youngest sailors are entering puberty; the captain and senior gunner are menopausal; the wardroom is filled with hormonally energized junior lieutenants; and the mission is a long, boring voyage home. It’s hard to remember that there’s a war for species survival raging in space, and Maggie Steele, the twenty-year-old first officer, has her hands full dealing with the emotional storms.

Linda Grant De Pauw, a retired university professor best known for her work in women’s military history has created a fantasy world that is perfect escape reading for our difficult times. De Pauw has imagined a space navy filled with the rich traditions of the age of sail with a few significant improvements: gender prejudice has disappeared from memory, officers really are morally superior people, and the war is unquestionably just.

Funny, exciting, filled with surprises, the community aboard HMS Lafayette includes a host of salty characters including the ghost of a former captain, a thirteen-year old sociopath working on a plan to take over the universe, a stowaway cat, and an unanticipated baby. Readers of all ages will love this book.

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Sea Changes
by Linda Grant De Pauw
published by The Writers Collective
November, 2003
ISBN 1-59411-001-8
Trade paperback, 344 pgs. $14.95

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PREPUBLICATION PRAISE FOR SEA CHANGES

The navy spaceship that makes up De Pauw’s meticulously created world serves as a background for equally finely drawn personalities, as they live out the conflicts both personal and military of the perilous journey home from years of deployment. It’s all here—-honor and dishonor, new life, death and destruction, sex and the deadly threats of inter-space warfare. This is a fascinating journey to a completely original alter civilization’s world. Read it!
Donna Dean, author of Deep Six

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Teeny-bopper trekkies will revel in this estrogen-driven foray into outer space
Joan Druett, author of She Captains

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A ripsnorting tale of intergalactic warfare aboard a Navy space ship in the late twenty-first century in which space homonids communicate by mental telepathy, a ghost tries to communicate a dark secret, and crew members argue about in which of their reincarnations they served together. A futurist tale in the grand tradition.
Selene Weise, author of The Good Soldier

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