Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust
Novelette 17,401 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
Original humans killed off all the people on Karalang 15,000 years ago, but the captain of Karalang’s last surviving warship just woke from cryosleep to get his revenge. But there’s an intruder on the ship.
Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.