


Reading through them was a hard but necessary task. The long and detailed descriptions of the clothing, etiquette, and customs were principle elements that reminded me of Pride and Prejudice. I hated the former and was intrigued by the latter. It had had elements that reminded me of Pride and Prejudice, and Babylon 5. This is a first contact story between Earth and alien race known as the V'Dan. Their new enemy, the Salik, seem to be rather familiar with fighting Humans-as if their war against humanity had already begun… Read more Humans have long known that they would encounter more alien species, and while those with precognitive abilities agree a terrible war is coming, they do not agree on who will save humanity-a psychic soldier or a politician.Īfter she is pressured into rejoining the Space Force to forestall the impending calamity, Jackie makes an unsettling discovery. Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator-but the universe has other plans… Jean Johnson's first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series-set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War…īorn into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council.
