Start your week off right with these enthralling Science Fiction and Fantasy novels by award winning author Patty Jansen. Enjoy!
Fire & Ice (Icefire Trilogy)
Patty Jansen
Genre: Fantasy
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Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For fifty years, the ruling Eagle Knights, who fly on the back of giant birds, have killed these Imperfects, fearing the return of the old royal family, who used icefire to cut out people’s hearts, turning them into ghostly servitors.
The old king’s grandson Tandor only sees the good things icefire brought: power and technology now forgotten while the people of the south live in dire poverty. He’s had enough of seeing his fellow kinsfolk slaughtered by ignorant Knights, of Imperfect babies being abandoned on the ice floes to be eaten by wild animals. His grandfather’s diary tells him how to increase the beat of the Heart the first step to making the land glorious once more. Arrogant as he is, he sets the machine in motion. All he needs is an army of Imperfect servitors to control the resulting power.
Isandor is Imperfect, an ex-Knight apprentice, betrayed by his best friend and running for his life.
The queen Jevaithi is Imperfect, living like a prisoner amidst leering Knights, surviving only because the common people would rebel if their beloved queen were harmed.
Both are young and desperate and should be grateful that Tandor wants to rescue them from their hopeless situations. Or so he thinks. The youngsters, however, have no inclination to become heartless ghosts, but while they defy Tandor, the Heart beats, and he alone cannot control its power.
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Watcher’s Web (Return of the Aghyrians)
Patty Jansen
Genre: Science Fiction
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She’s not your ordinary country girl, even though she might look like one. She casts webs of power, reading the feelings of living beings and telling them what to do. Nobody knows what causes it, least of all her. Her name is Jessica, but most people call her ‘freak’.
One fateful day, her ‘web’ connects with a stranger, and stray power causes the plane in which she’s travelling to crash in an alien world. An accident? The more she discovers about the world in which she has landed, the more she doubts it. She is a survivor from an ancient race that once travelled the stars. Her ancestors were powerful and dangerous, and it seems at least two people want her: the man who invades her mind, and the man who’s desperate to help her get back home. But Jessica grew up an Earth girl, and isn’t having any of this. She’ll pander to no one, thank you very much, even if her stubbornness enrages the tyrant race who hold the world in their grip.
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Ambassador
Patty Jansen
Genre: Science Fiction
In 1961, a small space ship crash-landed on the shore of a Greek island, its two occupants refugees from the oppressive regime of Asto. As cousins of humans, the Coldi are similar enough to remain undetected, and the group expanded and had a hand in the development of human digital technology. The ever-growing group managed to stay hidden until 2094, when the news that Homo sapiens is but a small branch in the galaxy-wide human family tree sent shockwaves through Earth.
Fast forward twenty years, and upstart diplomat Cory Wilson sees it as his mission to foster understanding between the democratic governments of Earth and the overbearing Coldi culture, a society with a rigid hierarchical structure that is dictated by instinct and pheromones.
Amidst the strained relations, a high-profile Earth politician is killed. There is no doubt that it was a non-terrestrial attack, but its nature goes against everything Cory knows about the Coldi. However, when he speaks out defending their innocence, he finds himself out of a job, alone, penniless and unable to return to Earth.
Meanwhile people are detained unlawfully, hundreds of thousands of citizens become stuck on a hostile world, and Earth authorities stumble from blunder to blunder in dealing with the Coldi outrage.
Only the truth will prevent the conflict escalating, but to find it, Cory has to challenge the very top of the Coldi hierarchy, in a society where the simple act of looking someone in the eye or using the wrong pronouns can mean the difference between life and death.
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Ambassador 2: Raising Hell
Patty Jansen
Genre: Science Fiction
THE SECOND-QUICKEST way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a prescribed place. These networks provide stability. They also place one person at the top.
Ezhya Palayi is that person.
After having been released by his previous employers, Cory Wilson not only depends on Ezhya Palayi for his income, but he has developed an unusually friendly relationship with this man whom people on Earth would call an absolute dictator, but whose reign is benign.
The third-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people is when the leader you depended on for support is suddenly no longer there, as when he goes missing because the system society relies on for interstellar travel goes down.
In a highly-strung hierarchical society, it won’t be long before someone else tries to claim the top spot, someone less benign, someone aggressive who is likely to destabilise peace between Asto and other worlds.
But by far the quickest way to get yourself killed is, as a non-Coldi outsider, to visit Asto and try to interfere in their hierarchical system, to mess with instincts you don’t feel yourself, and people who are much stronger than you.
Oh, and did you know that the average daytime temperature is well over 50 degrees C?
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Icefire Trilogy Omnibus
Patty Jansen
Genre: Fantasy
Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For fifty years, the ruling Eagle Knights, who fly on the back of giant birds, have killed these Imperfects, fearing the return of the old royal family, who used icefire to cut out people’s hearts, turning them into ghostly servitors.
Across the border in steam-age, science-focused Chevakia, people have built barriers against the radiation, against which they have no resistance.
Chevakia also harbours the old southern royal family’s only surviving members, and they are planning revenge and their return to power, taking both countries to the first war in fifty years.
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