hi.
I just discovered This author on podiobooks.com.
for anyone who's played the smugglers games I think you'll find his stuff incredibly interesting.
Their about a man who winds up on a trading ship going from port to port muh as the ships do in the smugglers game, ---- though minus the pirates and war, --- just a chap trying to get buy in a very capitalist universe, making money on the side, meeting friends and not such good friends on board ship, and trying to get ahead and decide what he should be doing.
he even starts out working in the ship's gally!
I don't think this'll be for everyone, --- don't be expecting massive space battles or huge empires crumbling, ----- but for just the plain facts about what life on a solar clipper trading ship is like this is one fantastic series that I can't recommend enough.
Begin with Quarter share and work on from that, ---- the author's reading isn't bad either.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)