Product Description

A vast and hostile force is attacking prosperous trade centres, destroying their space fleets then moving on, leaving death and chaos in their wake. Admiral Ky Vatta's family was decimated by one such attack and Turek, the pirate force's leader, will not escape her vengeance. Ky has a loyal taskforce, but the enemy have three times the ships and the firepower to match. She must offset these advantages with her knowledge of military strategy and her ace: superior ansible technology, facilitating fast and accurate in-space intelligence. The alternative to victory is unthinkable - devastation of interplanetary trading networks on a galaxy-wide scale - and the end of a way of life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22175 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
Praise for the Vatta's War series: 'Continues to get better with every volume ... roll on the next one' Guardian, 'Moon's latest tale of intergalactic take-over and economic turmoil is still running strong ...promises to take us to new places again' SFX, 'Full of thrills' Locus, 'Rip-roaring ... But this military SF tale is no mere shoot-'em-up' Publishers Weekly, 'A new epic chapter in space adventure has opened' The Alien Online

About the Author
Elizabeth Moon joined the US Marine Corps in 1968, reaching the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active duty. She has also earned degrees in history and biology, run for public office and been a columnist on her local newspaper. She lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband and their son.

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable read...
Put simply: the series of books were worth reading; they were fun and enjoyable with some good characters, and one or two especially interesting ones.

The series as a whole was let down by being too contrived. Every work of fiction is, of course, but it is the writer's job to make it believeable within the world it exists - occasionally I would find myself thinking - 'that's awefully convenient', or 'I expect that is going to happen'. As someone else put much less verbose - predictable. And it spoilt the fun.

Apart from the predictability of the ending, it was as good as book four, and a reasonably good end to the series; however, I believe there were a few too many loose ends. So whilst it finished the series, it didn't complete it.

The possibility of a follow-on series can't be discounted. I would certainly consider buying them, but I would likely wait until some or all of the series were available if that did happen.

Predictable
Whilst Elizabeth is carving a name for herself the one major problem is that her work is getting a bit too predictable and as such it does ruin my enjoyment. It is a series for people who love their sci-fi and as such allows the reader to have an enjoyable story contained within each novel. And if I were to recommend it I'd say to buy the series and read it chronologically as its something that will fill the days with a bit of easy reading over something that requires the reader to have to think.

space adventure continues
I have read over 1500 SF books, so one has to try out new authors continually. With mixed results
Well my introduction to Elizabeth Moon began 2 months ago with her Vatta's war series.
I would describe this series as an easy very enjoyable read, sometimes a bit to predictably but quite addictive.
I hope to see more from this series, I will definitely buy.