← Back to search
Cover of Failure Mode

Failure Mode

Craig Alanson ()

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesExpeditionary Force, Book #
Setting
CSM age13

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentNone
LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

DeathDespairHopelessnessMass Death

Positive tags

Found FamilyHumorHigh Angst

Tropes

Rogue AISpace OperaMilitary SFFound FamilyGalactic EmpireLast StandSentient ShipDoomed Mission

Themes

Hopelessness and DespairSacrificeImpossible OddsSalvage and SurvivalPredetermined FateFriendship in CrisisDefying Design

Synopsis

When a mission ends in disaster—there is no way to achieve the objective, no way to regroup and try again, no plan B, no hope— all you can do is fall back into FAILURE MODE and try to salvage whatever you can. ...if it is even possible to save anything, or anyone. The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got Played knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can’t win. The odds are not only stacked against him, he was designed not to win this fight. Maybe he can salvage some faint memory of the civilizations that inhabit the galaxy, but those beings are doomed. Doomed . Including the Merry Band of Pirates.

Tags

Military Science FictionHumorous SFSpace Adventure