Ghost Ship (Liaden Universe Book 15)

You could ask them about the guy who got stuck in the chimney one year, I think it made national news. Hope you and Steve have a good trip, do you prefer to travel by train or is it merely the lesser evil? Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I understand, was just hoping.

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Thanks for the quick answer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Tell me are you a Christian, child? When databases walk the earth. Unfortunately, safe space may not be so safe anymore. Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.

Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the Interior, challenged at every turn by opportunists on their new homeworld of Surebleak, and somewhat low on funds, Clan Korval desperately needs to reestablish its position as one of the top trading clans in known space.

To this end, Master Trader Shan yos'Galan, aboard Korval's premier trade ship, Dutiful Passage , is on a mission to establish new business associations and to build a strong primary route that links well with existing Loops and secondary routes. Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior, hunted by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos'Phelium and his ex-soldier lifemate Miri Robertson have commandeered the only spaceship on Vandar and fled, seeking help from Miri's newly discovered kin on Lytaxin. Elsewhere, Clan Korval is in action.

Scattered across space by the newly invoked Plan B, certain clan members pursue the search for the long-missing Val Con. This long-awaited culmination of the Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed Liaden Universe novels pits unexpected friends and unexpected enemies against each other in a war that spans planets and races - and threatens to bring interstellar violence to the very surface of fabled Liad.

On the run from interplanetary assassins, covert operative Val Con yos'Phelium and former mercenary sergeant Miri Robertson end up stranded on a distant planet - with no rescue in sight. Until they figure out a way back to Liad, these two lost souls must find a way to trust each other - and let their true love heal the dark wounds of their past. From Brandon Sanderson, the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance , and the internationally best-selling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.

Captain William Laurence and his fearless dragon, Temeraire, have been battling Napoleon and his armies No one who'd ever served with her could imagine any circumstance that would see her walking away from the Corps. But that was before Torin learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting That was when Torin left the military for good.

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The victory parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs. The Navies better start getting them back in Commission! Rita Longknife, commander of the heavy cruiser Exeter , has proof. Proof that there is something else out there. Proof we are not alone in the galaxy. Aboard her ship is evidence that we have blown up an alien ship, and they have blown up one of ours. So far, contact with the aliens is being made by pirates, the worst scum humanity has.

How do the right people take over making contact? When magic meets mundane, sparks fly: These are exciting times in Archers Beach, Maine! An unprecedented Early Season has united townies and carnies in an effort expand into a month resort, recapturing the town's former glory. Kate Archer, owner-operator of the vintage wooden carousel, is caught up in the excitement - and is quite possibly the cause of it. Because Kate leads a double life, as carny, and as Guardian of the land.

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New novel in the Liaden Universe series. Over a quarter million copies sold in this series to-date! Space ships, action, adventure — all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and family saga — make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers alike.

Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot — and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. She still feels like a socially challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before! In this book, Theo Waitley meets and pilots Bechimo, a fabulous self-aware space ship of artificial intelligence, created centuries before by "The Builders" of mysterious origin.

Theo and Bechimo engage weapons, battling the evil Department of the Interior. Theo and her AI ship slowly develop trust in each other, with some bumps along the road. Sometimes amusing little spats, as Bechimo is unsocialized, having been alone and in hiding for centuries. Theo pilots her Ghost Ship to planet Surebleak. Clan Korval has arrived and Jelaza Kazone sentient, ancient, wizardly tree is sinking its roots in, influencing the micro-climate.

Surebleak citizens welcome Boss Conrad's kin, who promise to maintain an open Port Road. Wild, lawless Surebleak is adjusting to a more benign form of leadership, and most folks welcome Boss Conrad's government style, but change is difficult, and Korval must deal with sabotage and even worse.

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Nelirikk gets to leap into action, along with Val Con, Theo, Daav, etc. Of course, the treacherous DoI is at work here. Now, with three on board, the interaction gets more interesting. Soon a fourth crew member boards.. This section of the story is brief. There is a short story that elaborates on it, called Prodigal Son. The POV changes too much.

Sometimes before you can turn a page. The story ends on a major cliffhanger, involving Daav yos'Phelium and Uncle. This book and the next book Dragon Ship and the next book Necessity's Child collectively go almost nowhere.

It's an interesting and sometimes highly entertaining journey, walking in circles, but compared to the plot of Tolkien's trilogy, these three books are meandering indeed. Oh, and a baby is born. Several sweet scenes with Tree, too. Narrated by Eileen Stevens.

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The narrator is okay, for the most part. I have no real complaints, but several quibbles. I do want to defend Stevens, though: She does not make Miri sound like she is laughing all the time, as one reviewer states, but she does put a chuckle into her voice quite often. When the topic is serious, however, Miri does not sound merry. Personally, I liked Steven's take on Miri. I agree with said reviewer's statement that male voices sound quieter than female voices, so one must sometimes adjust the volume. In general, male voices sound muffled, like a female trying to sound gruff.

Stevens pronounces Bechimo this way: Besh--ee--mo, emphasizing the middle syllable, ee, giving it a French sound. She mispronounced the French word "frisson" she said something very like "freeze on". For the word "mercenaries" shortened to "mercs", she says the short form like this: I have never heard the short form pronounced merce, as in "mercy. But again, who knows? Clan Korval's relocation to Surebleak can't go without bumps, and of course there are those who think the new power on the Port Road will be as easy to take out as any street boss from the old days.

Meanwhile, Theo Waitley is adjusting to finding herself a member of a large extended family, with siblings and cousins and aunts--none of whom grew up in the "safety" culture of Delgado, and whose reactions to her range from delighted to appalled. Theo has temporarily shelved the question of what to do about Bechimo, the "old tech" sapient AI ship which Win Ton has given her the command key for.

In the meantime, she's continuing to work as a courier pilot for the old and secretive person known as Uncle. But both as an employee of Uncle, and as, now, a known Clan Korval pilot, Theo has become a target for dangerous people. And of course, the Department of the Interior continues its war against Clan Korval. There are a lot of threads coming together here, and going off in new directions. Theo, Val Con, and their father, Daav, each in their own ways continue to grow and develop as characters.

We also start to get to know Bechimo, who, well, Bechimo needs a lot of socialization! This is a thoroughly satisfying entry in the Liaden series, continuing to build on what has gone before, and intertwining multiple ongoing threads in the larger Liaden universe.