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Her story began in the national bestsellers A Soldier’s Duty and An Officer’s Duty. Now Ia is captain and commander at the helm of Hellfire, where she is finally free to chart the course for the fulfillment of her destiny…
As captain, Ia must now assemble a crew that can rise to the ultimate challenge of saving the galaxy. The hardest part will be getting them to believe her, to trust in her prophecies. If they don’t, her own crew will end up being the biggest obstacle in her race against time.
The Salik are breaking through the Blockade, plunging the known galaxy into war. Ia cannot stop it this time, nor does she want to. This is the terrible price she has seen all along—that some must pay with their lives so that others might live. Now only time itself can prove whether each member of her crew is merely a soldier or truly one of Ia’s Damned.
- Sales Rank: #529737 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Ace
- Published on: 2013-07-30
- Released on: 2013-07-30
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 6.76" h x 1.24" w x 4.17" l, 1.00 pounds
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Praise for A Soldier’s Duty
“Reminiscent of both Starship Troopers and Dune…Successfully balances its military and science fiction elements.”—Publishers Weekly
“An engrossing military SF series...a good read.”—SF Signal
About the Author
Scott Bittle is an award-winning journalist, policy analyst, and web producer who has written extensively about the federal budget, energy, and foreign policy.
Jean Johnson writes frequently about public opinion and public policy and is the author of You Can t Do It Alone, a book on how parents, teachers, and students see education issues. Both authors are senior fellows at Public Agenda and blog frequently for the Huffington Post, National Geographic, and other outlets.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Not for everyone; but a damn fine read for the rest
By Artemio C.
This series has always been largely satisfying only to a particular group of people. The first one read like a moderately competent fan fiction, the second made leaps and bounds but still had our protagonist bulling over armies on her way to the market, and this entry built on the successes of its immediate predecessor to become a pretty darn good read in its own right.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Ia is a MASSIVE precog the likes of which I've never seen in fiction. The only thing keeping her from being omniscient is a finite amount of time. Yes, she's that powerful. Almost any information she could possibly need is at her fingertips. She's so powerful, she can read the past, present, and future of ALTERNATE REALITIES, in addition to her own.
In addition to her frankly overpowered precognition, Ia is a highly accomplished electrokinetic, which basically means she can manipulate electricity at will. Opening locked doors? Cake. Typing precognitive missives as fast as a thought? More cake. Piloting an alien vessel without touching the controls? Cake, cake everywhere!
She has telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and even telepathy thrown in for good measure. Her final super power is being from a very heavy world; the heaviest heavy world, on the backside of Terran space (as she's often wont to remind us). This means that despite the fact that she's a woman, she's at least twice as strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger. All packed in a svelte, attractive figure.
In terms of combat, there is virtually nothing she cannot do. In a classical sense, this drains away a lot of the potential for dramatic tension from the series. A lot of what writers use to create tension is the uncertainty of success. Ia isn't bound by such trivialities.
So what could possibly be entertaining about a character that can do anything? I'm glad you asked such a pertinent question!
First, Ia's task is equal to her abilities. She's out to save the galaxy from certain destruction, and it requires manipulating things on a micro- and macro-scale. Even with her prodigious skill, the odds are actually stacked against her.
Second, Ia the character is fairly tragic. Until this book that fact has been largely unexplored (another point in its favor if you ask me) but the concept of her is rather compelling. A fifteen year old forced to witness the death of a galaxy, driven to become something she despises in order to accomplish something she wants, and all the while sacrificing her own happiness for the greater good at every turn. True, the other two books did a piss poor job of elucidating this fact, but it was always there.
Third, for all Jean Johnson's technical faults in the writing of this book series, she has succeeded in one very important way; she not only told us Ia had a complicated, far reaching plan to save the galaxy, she showed us. Little hints from the first novel become relevant in the third, tiny throwaway sentences that one might write off as mistakes turn out to be pretty monumental revelations later on.
This fact alone elevates this series above what it appears at face value. Because, while dramatic tension was taking a vacation in the first book only to phone it in in the second book, these books have read almost like mysteries. It became a guessing game to pick up on those tiny hints and try to piece together Ia's plan.
We're being drip fed information and it's actually pretty compelling to try and figure it all out. At least for me.
Finally, there is something viscerally satisfying about an overpowered character. As an audience, it's almost like an in-joke. We get to revel in the other characters' reactions to Ia, cheer her on as she butchers all that stand in her path, and basically just indulge our baser instincts. It's almost cathartic.
So, having written such a longwinded preamble, what of Hellfire? If Soldier's Duty was a moderately competent fan fiction and Officer's Duty a below average novel, then Hellfire is a stone's throw away from a good one. Where the preceding two titles were a collection of viscerally satisfying but ultimately shallow events, Hellfire finally capitalizes on some of the character of Ia's potential.
With her abilities no longer secret, I like to think Ia doesn't have to be as guarded about her true feelings. And, considering she has the deaths of every living being in the galaxy to lull her to sleep at night, those feelings are probably pretty darn dark. This shift in tone is effectively done, if not expertly so, and by the end of the novel you actually end up feeling some of that pain yourself. Quite strongly in fact.
One of the things Jean Johnson has struggled with in the past is foreshadowing. Several times she'd foreshadow something moments before that information was relevant instead of dozens if not hundreds of pages before. This led to very clunky and ultimately unsatisfying reveals and circumstances.
It wasn't always the case. As I've said, she dropped a ton of hints that didn't play out till the next novel, but it was a sign of her growth as a writer. She still wasn't quite there.
But in Hellfire, one of the characters involved in the most intense climactic moment of the series is foreshadowed almost before the book really got going.
As a novel, the fact that the odds are stacked against her is clearly explained without feeling contrived, her emotional state has received a great deal more attention, and her near omnipotence is blasted into so many tiny pieces.
Before, she operated on such a small scale that all the things she needed to accomplish could be accomplished by her and her alone. But that is no longer the case, and it allows for a great deal more dramatic tension. She may be perfect, but her subordinates aren't.
I'll say this and leave you to decide whether any of this sounds like something you're interested in: Hellfire is probably the first real novel Jean Johnson has ever written. It has most of the elements of a good novel; dramatic tension, character development, character drama, action and reaction. It is the most complete novel I've read from her to date and was satisfying on more than just a visceral level.
Plot is still largely absent, but then you don't necessarily need a plot to tell a story (see Patrick Rothfuss' 'The Name of the Wind' and 'The Wise Man's Fear').
Despite that, it's very important for you, the reader, to decide what sort of story you want to invest your time and money into. Hellfire may have reinstated Dramatic Tension, but Ia is still an overpowered character. And in order to fully understand this series, you'll have to slog through books 1 and 2.
If you prefer stories about characters that succeed despite being underpowered, you'll probably hate this series. If flaws stick out to you like a sliver under your nail, you'll probably hate this series.
But on the flip side if you've been perfectly satisfied with the preceding two books you may actually be disappointed in this book. It's darker, it's more personal, but above all Ia is no longer wholly responsible for the success of her missions. Things DO go wrong. She's no longer completely overpowered.
Go into it with an open mind either way.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Great Book, Great Series, Great Author
By Gaden
I love this book. As much as I love the whole series. Each release in the series (to me) is a top highlight of my scifi book reading year.That is extremely high (to me) especially since I read about 2~4 books a week.
Anyone that loves the Honorverse Series, Vorkosigan adventures, etc would find little to complain about this series.
Ms Johnson drives this series and books like a pro. Never once was it dull. Never once was it too rushed. Never once did it break immersion for me (well as least until it ended in which I was going NOOOOOOOOOO!)
It was a beautiful story from start to end. A true scifi work of art by a talented and experienced writer.
Ms Johnson if you ever read this. Please give up your romance works (sorry I am a guy). You write scifi too well and I eagerly await for more books in the Ia series as well as any more of other scifi works you release.
Waiting eagerly for DAMNATION.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent book in great series
By Terry Dean
Third in the series Theirs Not To Reason Why.
Ia, AKA Bloody Mary, is a powerful precog who has foreseen the destruction of all life in the Galaxy in just 300 years. After an exhaustive search of the timelines, she found one slim chance, a set of choices that lead to one person able to save us under certain circumstances. Now, it is up to her to make sure this path is followed by everyone else during the next 300 years, even after her death. To do this, she must become recognized as "The Prophet of a Thousand Years".
Now as Captain of TUPSF Hellfire, the most powerful warship in the Terran United Planets Space Force, she must guide her crew in shaping the future path to salvation. The Second Salik War is just a step in this path. Some must live and some must die, worlds will survive or perish, but she is the one who must decide and bear the regrets that not everyone can be saved. And even seeing the choices does not mean the necessary actions will take place.
Ms Johnson seems to write in four book blocks, so there is at least one more book involving Ia, possibly more. Hopefully, she will return to this universe that she has created after that. She has left a multitude of strings to pick up in other series, including the Sanctuary civil war, the Fire Girl, and the final confrontation with the Zida"ya in 300 years.
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