The Sirens of Space — Jeffrey Caminsky

New starships are nothing but trouble. It's something Roscoe Cook heard his old commander say, often quite loudly. But he never believed it until he got a starship of his own, and faced the task of getting the ship and its temperamental crew ready to sail. In The Sirens of Space, the first volume of the Guardians of Peace adventure series, Captain Cook and his crew prepare for a journey that will span the galaxy as they introduce 21st Century readers to life in the 26th Century. And it begins on the frozen sands of Planet Ishtar....