Trading In Danger

Author: Elizabeth Moon

You know when you were a kid and you were forced to peel potatoes for the family fish and chip shop? Wait a minute is that just an English thing? Okay, scrap that. The family business that Kylara Vatta tries to avoid in Trading in Danger isn't that mundane, but apparently it's still worthy of buggering off to join the military. Sci-fi readers say that Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series is like the work of Lois McMaster Bujold, and there are definitely similarities in this epic, military, space-opera series. Trading in Danger follows Kylara Vatta, one of the young heirs of the interstellar shipping corporation Vatta Enterprises (imagine Planet Express, except with far more competent employees than Fry and Leela). To avoid being roped into the family business, Vatta enrolled in the Slotter Key Spaceforce Academy but had to leave in her last year and captain a trading ship, the Glennys Jones for the family business on its last journey to the scrapyards, Lastway. She deviates from her mission when she hears that a shipment of agricultural machinery never arrived and that there would be a hefty bounty to anyone who could bring this in. An engine malfunction lands her and the ship in a planetary system just edging into serious conflict. It wouldn't be a space-opera if epic conflict didn't ensue, and this is just what the local crisis causes. By Ky's military training pays off in the end.

Books in Vatta's War Series (6)

Marque And Reprisal

Engaging The Enemy

Command Decision

Victory Conditions

Engaging The Enemy

Command Decision