"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace
in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the
books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive
and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per
light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the future invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody Mary in
the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
Lynn
On 8/19/2023 3:16 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace
in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive
and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the future invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody Mary in the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
Lynn^At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her
precognitive and telekinetic abilities.^At 15 years of age in 2487, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive and telekinetic abilities. Sigh.
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 at 21:44:44 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 8/19/2023 3:16 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson^At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/ >>>
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace
in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the
books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld
Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15
years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive
and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an
overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the
galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per
light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong
military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the future >>> invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl
waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody Mary in >>> the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
Lynn
precognitive and telekinetic abilities.^At 15 years of age in 2487, Ia
experienced the awakening of her precognitive and telekinetic abilities.
Sigh.
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
In article <ca10e58d-510a-46b6-a072-582c8b90ce72n@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
(Hal Heydt)
Dorothy had some choice words about the cover for "The Interior
Life." Mostly around portaying a major character riding
side-saddle in what she described as a white "1950s prom dress"
where that character rode astride and wore black.
The cover for "A Point of Honor" was actually very good.
So...luck of the draw.
On 8/20/2023 2:29 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <ca10e58d-510a-46b6-a072-582c8b90ce72n@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
(Hal Heydt)
Dorothy had some choice words about the cover for "The Interior
Life." Mostly around portaying a major character riding
side-saddle in what she described as a white "1950s prom dress"
where that character rode astride and wore black.
The cover for "A Point of Honor" was actually very good.
So...luck of the draw.
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover
artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
On 8/20/2023 5:20 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 at 21:44:44 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 8/19/2023 3:16 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson^At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace >>>> in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the >>>> books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld
Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15 >>>> years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive >>>> and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an
overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the >>>> galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per >>>> light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong
military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the
future
invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl >>>> waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody
Mary in
the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
Lynn
precognitive and telekinetic abilities.^At 15 years of age in 2487, Ia
experienced the awakening of her precognitive and telekinetic abilities. >>> Sigh.
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
I listed the heavy world planet as Sanctuary but I see that I misspelled
it.
Ia is half human, half Ferori, a race that can convert matter (and themselves) to energy and back. She is 176 cm (5'9") and 102 kg (225 lbs). She is muscle bound and built like a junior weight lifter.
Lynn
In article <ca10e58d-510a-46b6...@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are(Hal Heydt)
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
Dorothy had some choice words about the cover for "The Interior
Life." Mostly around portaying a major character riding
side-saddle in what she described as a white "1950s prom dress"
where that character rode astride and wore black.
The cover for "A Point of Honor" was actually very good.
So...luck of the draw.
"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace
in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the
books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15
years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive
and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per
light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the future invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody Mary in
the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
"A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why Book 1)" by Jean Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Duty-Theirs-Not-Reason/dp/0441020631/
Book number one of a five book military science fiction paranormal
series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace
in 2011 that I just rebought new from Amazon. This is my third or
fourth reading of the book and series. I have ordered two more of the
books in the series, one new and one used since the third book is now
out of print.
Ia is a heavyworlder, born and raised on the independent colonyworld Santuary, a 3.2 gravity newly colonized planet in the year 2472. At 15 years of age in 2787, Ia experienced the awakening of her precognitive
and telekinetic abilities. Being one of the strongest precognitives
ever known, she watched the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by an overwhelming force who proceeded to kill everyone and everything in the galaxy.
Ia traveled the 700 light years to old Earth and joined the Terran
United Space Force Marine Corps on her 18th birthday. At one hour per
light year, the trip took over four weeks and allowed her to finish
making her 300 year plan to restructure the two billion person strong military forces of the Terran United Space Force to fight off the future invaders.
Here is my 2011 review: "OK, totally cool book about a 15 year old girl waking up one day on her heavy grav (3.2g!) planet with visions of
galaxy invaders 300 years in the future. Ia joins the Terran Marine
Corps so she can change the future. She becomes known as Bloody Mary in
the Corps fighting space pirates and weird alien species."
The author has a website at:
https://jeanjohnson.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I may add this to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (755 reviews)
On 8/20/2023 2:29 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <ca10e58d-510a-46b6-a072-582c8b90ce72n@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
And I think the planet is called Sanctuary, and
heavyworld humans didn't look just like the lady
on the cover in the Sci fi old days. They were...
heavier.
Well, she has telekinetic abilities.
Should I trot out again the bit from Jack Campbell's
"The Lost Fleet" series where someone warns
Captain Geary about his expected biography, like,
"The cover will be you posing heroically on a
battlefield in your power armor." But he's a
spaceship driver and he doesn't even own
power armor. And yet, the book covers...
(His British covers portray spaceships that are
rarely similar to the ones in these stories.)
(Hal Heydt)
Dorothy had some choice words about the cover for "The Interior
Life." Mostly around portaying a major character riding
side-saddle in what she described as a white "1950s prom dress"
where that character rode astride and wore black.
The cover for "A Point of Honor" was actually very good.
So...luck of the draw.
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover >artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover
artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
On 2023-08-20, Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
Given that many cover artists clearly haven't read the text, and books
are only rarely written to an existing cover[1], how does the process
work? The editor passes some notes to the cover artist?
[1] Some of the paperback sequels to the German _Terranauten_ pulp
series feature scenes that very well match their covers, which
happen to be pre-existing art by American cover artists. What
conclusion should I draw?
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
On 2023-08-20, Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover
artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
Given that many cover artists clearly haven't read the text, and books
are only rarely written to an existing cover[1], how does the process
work? The editor passes some notes to the cover artist?
The editor or the art director, if the company has one. As the cover can be viewed not as an aesthetic part of the book, but as advertising for it, there may be input from marketing, but probably in the form of notes to the editor.
surprisingly fit.)[1] Some of the paperback sequels to the German _Terranauten_ pulp
series feature scenes that very well match their covers, which
happen to be pre-existing art by American cover artists. What
conclusion should I draw?
Many sf artists are junkies themselves, might read the manuscript if left alone for a moment with it.
Professionals seemed to affect a distance from their material, such as Heinlein's anecdote about a pulp writer who sold stories of every type except those dealing with subjects he actually knew.
(This is coming from a fan of the Terran Trade Authority -- books built from a sf history built around various paperback covers, who has then seen these covers reused on books they didn't quite fit, and on their original books, which sometimes they
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:18:19 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn
<jack.bohn64@gmail.com> wrote:
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
On 2023-08-20, Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Some author noted (Pournelle ?) that you were fortunate when the cover >>>> artist actually read the book before creating the cover.
Given that many cover artists clearly haven't read the text, and books
are only rarely written to an existing cover[1], how does the process
work? The editor passes some notes to the cover artist?
The editor or the art director, if the company has one. As the cover can be viewed not as an aesthetic part of the book, but as advertising for it, there may be input from marketing, but probably in the form of notes to the editor.
Exactly. Whatever makes the book jump from the shelf into the hands of
the purchaser.
surprisingly fit.)[1] Some of the paperback sequels to the German _Terranauten_ pulp
series feature scenes that very well match their covers, which
happen to be pre-existing art by American cover artists. What
conclusion should I draw?
Many sf artists are junkies themselves, might read the manuscript if left alone for a moment with it.
Professionals seemed to affect a distance from their material, such as Heinlein's anecdote about a pulp writer who sold stories of every type except those dealing with subjects he actually knew.
(This is coming from a fan of the Terran Trade Authority -- books built from a sf history built around various paperback covers, who has then seen these covers reused on books they didn't quite fit, and on their original books, which sometimes they
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