A Stitch in Space by Christopher Lansdown

A long and dangerous voyage to a strange new world In the year 2462, Father Guerin voyages to a new world, like the priests who sailed the Atlantic in the 1700s. Joined by three other passengers and the crew of the cargo ship Hopeful, he sets off for the recently colonized planet Xanadu. What kind of person spends half a year cut off from the rest of humanity by the vast distances of interstellar space? What will they make of the over-educated and over-confident priest? And how will they cope when the space pirates attack? Firefly’s Shepherd Book meets C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy!