Michael was orphaned at seventeen, light-years from home. His inheritance: a starship, distant relatives he never knew existed, and inescapable questions that challenge everything he thought was true.

Michael’s quest for answers takes him halfway across the Confederacy, from the gleaming corridors of the wealthy super-freighters to the dark holds of Father Chessman’s pirate ships. The truth is waiting for him, but he’ll have to survive to find it.

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### Review

**Ships of My Fathers** is quite good. You never know with self published authors, but fans of Nathan Lowellshould find this first book in a 5 book series familiar and fun.  ...  There's a hint of Heinlein's classic **Citizen of the Galaxy** and Nathan Lowell's excellent **Quartershare** in there, and things turn out pretty much as you expect, but gettingthere is quite a bit of fun, and over too soon.  -- Ernest Lilley - SFRevuEditor (Emeritus)

### About the Author

Dan Thompson started writing fiction at the age of ten. Luckily for the world, all copies of that early Star Wars rip-off have been lost to time and Sith retaliation. Moving on from that six-page handwritten epic, he wrote short stories through the 1980's and 1990's and sold a few of them to magazines that rarely lived past his stories' publication. 

After three or four abandoned novels, he finally started finishing some and decided they should do more than collect dust and red scribbles. Because of the shakeup e-books have brought to publishing, he decided to pursue self-publishing for the time being. Thus Quantum Forge Press was born.

He lives near Austin with his wife and three children, drives old police cars, wears kilts when the weather permits, visits with friends as much as possible, and is generally considered to be the weirdo next door. Fortunately, the neighbors don't know how weird he really is.