Elizabeth Moon, Author Baen Books $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-57840-4
Continuing her epic, intergalactic series set in the distant future (Rules of Engagement, etc.), Moon's latest novel follows the tumultuous romance of Esmay Suiza and offworlder Barin Serrano while tracking a bevy of new political intrigues among...
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Elizabeth Moon. Del Rey, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-101-88734-9
Nebula-winner Moon extends her long-running Vatta’s War military SF series (after Cold Welcome) with a middling installment set on Slotter Key, the Vatta family’s home planet and center of their commercial empire. Former Admiral Ky Vatta, having...
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Elizabeth Moon. Del Rey, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-101-88731-8
Nebula-winner Moon’s popular far-future Vatta’s War series (Trading in Danger) roars on after a break of nearly a decade with this extended survival-and-rescue mission. Intrepid adventurer Kylara Vatta, a precocious Space Defense Force grand admiral
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Elizabeth Moon. Del Rey, $26 (528p) ISBN 978-0-345-53309-8
The concluding volume of the Paladin’s Legacy fantasy quintet (after Limits of Power) is far more cerebral than action-focused, with layered plots tying up most of the threads among the main characters. Kieri and Arian, king and queen of Lyonya, are
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Elizabeth Moon. Del Rey, $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-53306-7
Moon’s fourth fantasy novel set in the Eight Kingdoms (after Echoes of Betrayal) is thoughtful and deeply character driven, full of personal crises as heartbreaking and hopeful as any dramatic invasion. The Kingdoms are at peace for now, but...
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Elizabeth Moon. Del Rey, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-50876-8
Paladins, insists one of Moon’s characters, “come into the world to change it, and that’s always trouble for someone.” The actions of Paladin Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter in Oath of Fealty and Kings of the North have indeed left a legacy of change...
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Elizabeth Moon, Del Rey, $26 (496p) ISBN 978-0-345-50875-1
The languorous sequel to 2010's Oath of Fealty finds many characters moving up in the world, including Kieri Phelan, the king of Lyonya, and Dorrin, now Duke Verrakai. Now those newly stationed must deal with assassination attempts, counterfeiting,...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author Baen Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-87718-7
Employing colonies of contract workers, corporations harvest the resources of alien worlds in the future envisioned here by Moon (Winning Colors). To the faceless bureaucracy that owns her contract, 70-year-old Ofelia Falfurrias is dead weight: too...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44755-5
"If I had not been what I am, what would I have been?" wonders Lou Arrendale, the autistic hero of Moon's compelling exploration of the concept of "normalcy" and what might happen when medical science attains the knowledge to "
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Elizabeth Moon, Author Baen Books $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-31961-8
Members of the Familias Regnant's interstellar military service, Fleet, have mutinied, jeopardizing the fragile peace the Familias holds with its hulking neighbor state, the Benignity, in Moon's entertaining sequel to Change of Command. The Familias
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Del Rey $26 (398p) ISBN 978-0-345-49161-9
Rip-roaring action and intriguing science and tactics distinguish Nebula-winner Moon’s fifth and final Vatta’s War installment. Now combat-blooded and well on her way to the admiralty, young Kylara Vatta commands 40 far-future spacecraft
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-49159-6
Fourth in Moon's Vatta's War space-going family and military saga (after 2006's Engaging the Enemy
), this jaunty far-future romp follows the scions of two powerful but threatened families: woman space warrior Kylara Vatta and undercover
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (401p) ISBN 978-0-345-44756-2
Nebula Award–winner Moon's third Kylara Vatta novel is sadly more reminiscent of the uninspiring Trading in Danger
(2003) than the inspired Marque and Reprisal
(2004). Ky has more or less patched up her relationship with her cousin...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-345-44758-6
After her debut in Moon's somewhat lackluster Trading in Danger
(2003), capable young Kylara Vatta, now captain of a dilapidated space freighter, lets loose in this rip-roaring sequel. With most of her immediate family back home on Slotter Key...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-44760-9
Noted for her strong heroines and interstellar naval adventures, Moon (Against the Odds) stumbles in the first of a new series featuring Kylara Vatta, whose "generous impulses" often get her into trouble. Ky, a favored daughter of a wealthy,
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Elizabeth Moon, Author, Moon, Author Baen Books $22 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-57777-3
Headstrong Brun Meager, daughter of the immensely powerful Speaker of the Table of Ministries, idolizes the slightly older Lieutenant Esmay Suiza, who is taking command track classes with her at the Fleet training facility. Esmay is too busy with...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author, Moon, Author Baen Books $21 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-87769-9
Over the last decade, Moon (Remnant Population) has established herself as one of the best-known and most acclaimed writers of SF adventure. Her latest novel expands the setting of her Heris Serrano space opera series, popular for its smooth...
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Elizabeth Moon, Author, Anne McCaffrey, Introduction by . Night Shade $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59780-109-6
This rich collection from Nebula-winner Moon (The Speed of Dark
) offers 15 stories spanning two decades of her career. Fans of the Chicks in Chainmail anthology series will enjoy “And Ladies of the Club” and three other tales of the...
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Anne McCaffrey, Author, Elizabeth Moon, Author Baen Books $6.99 (346p) ISBN 978-0-671-69863-8
The first in the Planet Pirates series, this science fiction yarn offers a vivid universe inhabited by cardboard citizens. Sassinak, the heroine and the only developed character, steps straight from a formula: When she is 12, pirates raid her native
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-458-4
Two dozen stories of women warriors form this epic anthology of stories about those forced to fight, those who chose to fight regardless of odds, those who ran from their destiny as warriors, and those who will end war at any cost. In Caitlín R....
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