Cold Welcome

Name: Cold Welcome
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Moon
ISBN: 9798350894721

Author: Elizabeth Moon

Series: Vatta's Peace #1

Narrator: Carrie Coello

Unabridged: 15 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with this installment in a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence.

Summoned to the home planet of her family's business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero's welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance.

Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet—a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group's survival but her entire home planet.

About Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon is the author of many novels, including Victory Conditions, Command Decision, Engaging the Enemy, Marque and Reprisal, Trading in Danger, the Nebula Award winner The Speed of Dark, and Remnant Population, a Hugo Award finalist. After earning a degree in history from Rice University, Moon went on to obtain a degree in biology from the University of Texas, Austin. She lives in Florence, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen’s Library on April 11, 2017

It's been a long time since I read the Vatta's War series and even longer for the prequels, but I slipped right back into Elizabeth Moon's universe like a pair of favorite slippers. In Cold Welcome we find Ky heading back to her home planet when her shuttle is sabotaged and Ky and the other passenge......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on November 18, 2017

I have read all of Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War series. Moon is an award-winning author of sci-fi and military speculative fiction. The Vatta’s War series is set way into the future far from this solar system. When we first meet “Ky” Vatta, in Trading in Danger, she has lost her place at the prestig......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 22, 2024

A return to Vatta's series, but this time, not as a hero, but to a place... with a cold welcome. :) All said, she's crashed and presumed dead with some she can call friends, and others, not so much. It's a fine line for a mil-SF and much more character-driven than most. All said, it's good competence......more

Goodreads review by Ben on May 21, 2017

I read the all the books in the Vatta's War series as they were released and thought the series started well but got worse as it went on. I'm pretty much convinced that Moon was losing interest in the characters and the setting as the final book was really dull, workmanlike and felt like she was jus......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on March 21, 2017

Elizabeth Moon writes extraordinary military fiction. It’s not normally one of my favorite subgenres, except when she writes it. I love how intelligent she is about the strengths of the military culture and how characters fit and don’t fit into it. When combined with real (as opposed to cartoonish,......more