#2 in the Theo Waitley series from the Liaden Universe.Theo goes to Pilot Academy to pursue her skills. Carrying some of the theme of the first book (Fledgling), the culture of the Academy World is out of tune with Theo, some good, some bad, and she has to decide what to carry on and what to set ...
I still feel like this series is sort of thin, but this was a nice follow-up to Scout's Progress. It was kind of oddly paced -- the first three-quarters tells one story, and the last quarter jumps ahead five years and tells a different story, which felt odd to me. I didn't feel like either story ...
Always great to immerse myself back in the Liaden UniverseTM, I've spent so much time imagining Theo's meeting with the larger Koval clan that it was extremely rewarding to see it finally happen on paper. And no disappointment here. Still it doesn't quite feel like Theo world and the larger Kov...
I found this one harder to follow, as an audio book, than the previous two books in the Theo Waitley subseries. It brings in a host of new characters, including two who share the same body.I often listen to audio books while I do other things. With this one I had to remind myself to pay attention...
Clan Korval is on, but not of, Surebleak; there is a need for Korval to integrate, to mesh, with the people already there – not just the Bosses. Nova’s son, finds purpose and a sister in attending the new school system being established. The Bedel, the kompani (think gypsies), must find their way...
I read this space opera in Kindle format (some typos) in a collection titled The Crystal Variation, containing the first three stories, in chronological order: Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon, Balance of Trade. There is no Table of Contents. No hyperlink to each book. Even worse, no link to the ...
Centuries in the past, mankind fought a seemingly unbeatable adversary from sector to sector across the Spiral Arm until the war ground to a standstill and the Enemy withdrew. Believing that they had won, the citizens of the galaxy rebuilt. The Inner Worlds, which had escaped the worst of the war...
Master trader Er Thom knows the local custom of Liaden is to be matched with a proper bride, and provide his prominent clan Korval with an heir. Yet his heart is immersed in another universe, influenced by another culture, and lost to a woman not of his world. And to take a Terran wife such as sc...
Assistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed lik...
Not officially a "Liaden Universe® Adventure", Calamity's Child is SRM Publisher's first chapbook of 2006 and features two Sharon Lee and Steve Miller stories ...one is the off-the-beaten track Liaden Universe® novelette "Sweet Waters," which appeared in magazines in both the UK and the US (3SF a...
Two short stories set in the Liaden Universe. The first story is The Beggar King, set on Liad and about the young Daav yos' Phelium's early training to be Delm. The second is Necessary Evils, explore the time and space before Clan Korval, when the universe was degenerating into chaos, and individ...
In the second novel of the Liaden Universe, Aelliana Caylon is a brilliant mathematician, but is convinced by her brother she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then on a dare, she plays a game of chance and wins a starship. Now she must learn to fly if she is ...
Two short stories "Veil of the Dancer" and "Quiet Knives". "Veil of the Dancer" first appeared in the magazine Absolute Magnitude. This is the first appearance of "Quiet Knives".
This review was originally posted on www.thegeekgirlproject.comAgent of Change is the first book in the Liaden Universe series-- and the authors' first novel as well.Agent of Change is an exciting story with characters I fell in love with, and it takes place in a well-crafted, complex world. If y...
Two short stories "Lord of the Dance" and "This House". "This House" first appeared in the anthology "Stars" edited by Janis Ian. This is the first appearance of "Lord of the Dance".
Sixteen-year-old Priscilla Delacroix was declared legally dead by her mother, High Priestess of the Goddess. Banished to survive on her own, Priscilla has roamed the galaxy for ten years as an outcast—to become a woman of extraordinary skill. . . . An experienced officer assigned to the Liaden v...
On the run from assassins, Val Con yos�Phelium and Miri Robertson are stranded on a distant planet and must learn to trust each other if they�re going to survive�and learn to love each other if they�re going to heal the dark wounds of their past.
After, Cantra made a pot of garden-tea, its soft, tangy taste everything that was different from the usual ship-board brew. He savored it no less than the quiet ease between him and his comrades, and put the cup down with a pang when the tea was too soon gone. “Business on the port?” Cantra asked...
He had finished reading his entire backlog of journals, and was now reclined in his chair, one ear on the audio from the Orbital Traffic Scanner, and both eyes closed. "Truly," he murmured to Mandrin, who was napping in her usual spot on the desk, "it's nothing short of amazing what one can accom...
There was also a car parked next to the ’booth, muddy and dinged up. At the front of the crowd, in the Boss’s place of honor, stood a slender figure in a blue jacket, brown hair rumpled by the wind, his back got by a man considerably larger, a stocky woman in a good warm coat at his right hand. I...
Ter'Astin came in while he was primping--the Scout's word, not Jethri's--and did some primping of his own. It seemed a little unfair, Jethri thought, that a pilot's jacket was considered to be the equivalent of formal trade wear, though the Scout did take the trouble to upgrade his standard dark ...
as plain as the nose on your face, if your nose happened to be Liaden. Since hers wasn’t, she’d memorized which buttons Nova pressed to draw what kind of rations. She fished the cup out of the dispenser and punched the button again, then walked both cups carefully down the narrow hallway to the p...
She was hardly surprised; she had never understood why her sister had encouraged the young man's attentions in the first place. Oh, he was pretty enough, though tall, but Min preferred dash, daring, and drama. Shadow was quiet, mannerly, and respectful; so unlike any of Min's previous lovers as t...
EDTI woke refreshed, with no assist from the alarm, from a sleep so sound it seemed as if a cat had guarded my dreams.That was an odd fancy, I thought, lying there and not exactly in a hurry to rise. It’d been years since I’d lived with a cat—Gran’s big old Maine coon, that would have been—Bowdit...
Not only would such movement set her sister to nattering about fidgety invalids but it would also, depending on circumstance, serve to spill the tea, or tear the roots or leaf of a growing thing, or distort the pattern of thread-count or lead to any number of unhandy outcomes. Treasures to guard ...
EDT“How’d the meetin’ go?” Borgan asked.We were sitting at the concrete picnic table nearest the fountain in Fountain Circle. The underwater lights were on, and the spray was alternating blue, pink, and green.The tall streetlights were also on, full blare; Fountain Circle gets particularly crowde...
Meripen Vanglelauf had not addressed a word to her since they had begun the walk back to the village, nor acknowledged her presence in any way.While she could scarcely blame him for not wishing to associate with someone who keenly felt herself to be beneath contempt, still it would have been . . ...
Not a ship of the Clan, certainly; nor yet the ship of an ally, the captain of which would have been given the pass-codes, hailing protocols, and some understanding of the capabilities of this, Korval's most secret and secure hidey-hole. This ship . . . This ship only sat there, making no attempt...
He stood over Miri for a time, studying her face in the crisp moonlight, unaccountably delighted that the small, satisfied smile still lingered on her mouth. Gently he tucked the covers around her, fingertips barely brushing the tumble of copper silk, then turned and went like moonshadow across t...
She had been with Boss Shroeder for some time, and heartily wished him at the devil, though of course it would never do to let him know that. Tedious as he was, they—which was to say, Surebleak and Korval—needed his willing support of both the consolidated school and the increased levels of patro...
After all, you’re a cat. Highest level of evolution and all that. Just back among us mere mortals for one more incarnation, to prove to the Eternal All that you finally and for all time have gotten your act together--" "Ow!" "Hey, don’t get sore; I didn’t mean anything by it. Monkeys are bad-temp...
Padi said warmly, eyes flashing with triumph, her soup forgotten on the table before her. Abruptly, her shoulders sagged, and she averted her face. “Only, one is not allowed to keep it, which seems, someway…less satisfying than no profit at all.” “Also,” she said, putting her spoon down with the ...
The welfare and comfort of the guest will be first among the priorities of the House, for so long as the guest shall bide. —Excerpted from the Liaden Code of Proper Conduct DAAV YOS'PHELIUM, fourth of his Line to bear the name; master pilot; Scout captain, retired; expert of cultural genetics; De...
Dawns on Temp Headquarters were swift and terrible, as the day-wind sprang out of the well of night, tearing the black and crimson shroud from across the sullen orange face of the primary.Since those early days, she had taken dawn watch many times, on many worlds. And while no other dawn could ma...