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Loading... Trading in Danger (Kylara Vatta 1) (edition 2003)by Elizabeth Moon
Work detailsTrading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
enh. It's kinda boring.  GinnyTea | Mar 31, 2013 |  Kylara (Ky) Vatta is at the top of the honour corps of the Slotter Key (her home planet) Spaceforce Academy. A few short months before graduation, she is made a scapegoat and dismissed from the Academy in disgrace. Although shocked and upset by this abrupt end to her lifelong dream, Ky slips back into the life she was born and bred to. Her interstellar merchant family, who had not been keen on her joining the Naval Academy, send her into space on a straightforward milk run as the captain of her own ship until the fuss dies down at home. But mindful of the Vatta family motto - 'trade and profit' - and with her own sense of adventure, Ky ends up in the middle of a situation that calls on all her military training to keep her crew and herself alive. The first part of the story, with Ky's home life and long days in transit in space on a trading run, doesn't have much action, but the pace does pick up when she takes her ship off their pre-planned route in search of extra profit. I enjoyed this book, and I liked the strong sense of family that comes through. N.B. You may want to know what an ansible is, since they (or, rather, lack of them) play a large part in the story. From Wikipedia : An ansible is a fictitious machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal communication - coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in [Rocannon's World]. (  ) humouress | Nov 17, 2012 | Very good first novel for the series. It started off a little rough, but smoothed out as it went along. Not a great book from a tech aspect -- some things are well developed and others are not. If you just go along with the story and the adventures you'll find it to be an enjoyable book. After the first 200 pages I purchased the next three in the series. (  ) skraft001 | Sep 5, 2012 | Quite a story...young trader/transporter far in the future with wartime adventures. I wonder if there is a sequel? (  ) buffalogr | Nov 28, 2011 | I discovered Elizabeth Moon through her excellent stand-alone science-fiction novel, The Speed of Dark last year and decided to investigate some of the series she'd written. Trading in Danger is the first book in Moon's Vatta's War series. Described as military science fiction, we follow the story of Kylara (Ky) Vatta who has chosen a military career over the safer option of the family business. But she's forced to resign from the military academy after her innocent attempt to help a fellow student results in a PR storm which threatens to disgrace the academy. Her father sends Ky off to a distant part of civilised space as Captain of one of the oldest ships in the family fleet on what should be a safe and routine trading trip. But things don't quite go according to plan and soon Ky must draw on all her military training to ensure she and her crew survive. After a rather slow start (70 pages in it was still all trade and no danger) I enjoyed this story. I'm still not sure what I think of the military science fiction sub genre. I missed the world-building that I enjoy in other science fiction novels; Ky's universe felt like ours just with more space ships. But the characters were good and once it got going I was gripped by the storyline. ( ) souloftherose | Apr 24, 2011 | no reviews | add a review Contains
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