Vatta's War
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Ky aboard the bridge of the Glennys Jones.
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| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
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| Cover artist |
 Dave Seeley Fred Gambino
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Vatta's War |
| Genre | space opera, military science fiction |
| Publisher |
Del Rey Books Orbit Books
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Publication date
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September 30, 2003 |
| Media type | hardcover, paperback |
| Pages | 304 (hardcover) 357 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) (paperback) |
| OCLC | 53087396 |
| Followed by | Marque and Reprisal |
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Ky in the airlock of the Gary Tobai with the Fair Kaleen in the background
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| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
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| Cover artist |
Dave Seeley Fred Gambino
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Vatta's War |
| Genre | space opera, military science fiction |
| Publisher |
Del Rey Books Orbit Books
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Publication date
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September 28, 2004 |
| Media type | hardcover, paperback |
| Pages | 336 (hardcover) 378 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) (paperback) |
| OCLC | 54685621 |
| Preceded by | Trading in Danger |
| Followed by | Engaging the Enemy |
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Ky firing a beam weapon (which she never does in the text)
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| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
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| Cover artist |
Dave Seeley Fred Gambino
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Vatta's War |
| Genre | space opera, military science fiction |
| Publisher |
Del Rey Books Orbit Books
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Publication date
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March 28, 2006 |
| Media type | hardcover, paperback |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | (hardcover) (paperback) |
| OCLC | 61123209 |
| Preceded by | Marque and Reprisal |
| Followed by | Command Decision |
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Ky docked at space station
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| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
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| Cover artist |
Dave Seeley Fred Gambino
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Vatta's War |
| Genre | space opera, military science fiction |
| Publisher |
Del Rey Books Orbit Books
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Publication date
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February 27, 2007 |
| Media type | hardcover |
| Pages | 400 (hardcover) 320 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) (paperback) |
| OCLC | 70408090 |
| Preceded by | Engaging the Enemy |
| Followed by | Victory Conditions |
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Ky in command seat of CCC
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| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
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| Cover artist |
Dave Seeley Fred Gambino
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Vatta's War |
| Genre | space opera, military science fiction |
| Publisher |
Del Rey Books Orbit Books
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Publication date
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February 19, 2008 |
| Media type | hardcover |
| Pages | 384 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 182631485 |
| Preceded by | Command Decision |
Vatta's War is a science fiction series by Texan writer Elizabeth Moon, comprising five books: Trading in Danger (2003), Marque and Reprisal (2004) (Moving Target in UK and Australia), Engaging the Enemy (2006), Command Decision (2007), and Victory Conditions (2008). They have been characterized as military science fiction similar in style to the works of Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga), David Weber and Walter Jon Williams (Dread Empire's Fall).
The books follow the adventures of Kylara Vatta, a young member of the Vatta family, which runs the interstellar shipping corporation Vatta Enterprises. She had sought a life outside the family business by enrolling in the Slotter Key Spaceforce Academy, but she is forced to resign in her final year and assigned to captain an old trading ship for the corporation. Her military training is put to good use, however, during the crises she faces, first as a ship captain in dangerous situations, and later as the representative of a family under attack.
The first book, Trading in Danger, is narrowly focused on Ky and the local crisis in which she becomes involved. The perspective expands in the later books as connections between piracy and ansible attacks on the one hand and Vatta Enterprises and InterStellar Communications Corporation (ISC) on the other are revealed.
Kylara Vatta, the daughter of the CFO of Vatta Transport Ltd., a space shipping firm based out of the wealthy world of Slotter Key, is forced to resign in disgrace from the Slotter Key spaceforce academy after she is tricked by another cadet. Hoping to get her out of the limelight and make the best of her skills, her family give her the command the old, decrepit freighter Glennys Jones on its final journey to the scrapyards of Lastway. At the young Belinta colony she is told that a sorely needed shipment of agricultural machinery never arrived and a sizable payment is available to anyone who can bring the goods from the Sabine system. Determined to save the Glennys Jones from being scrapped, Ky deviates from the mission in an attempt to gain enough credit to refit the ship.
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