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Impossible Things ([personal profile] sixbeforelunch) wrote in [community profile] dreams_library2013-05-05 09:24 pm
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science fiction with a reassignment backfire plot

I'm looking for science fiction novels that have an element of reassignment backfire (TV Tropes warning) where a protagonist is sent to a backwater or otherwise given an undesirable assignment and ends up coming up on top in some way or another. I'm open to (but by no means specifically asking for) Star Trek books.
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[personal profile] vae 2013-05-07 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like the Seafort saga to me - link goes to Midshipman's Hope, the first of the books.

A hideous accident kills the senior officer of UNS Hibernia, leaving a terrified young officer with the daunting taskof saving 300 colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship, on a 17-month gauntlet to reach Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair and exhaution, malfunctions and mutiny, in the name of duty.
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[personal profile] sixbeforelunch 2013-05-09 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks cool. I just added the first book to my goodreads account. :)
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