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Command Decision (Vatta's War) | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Moon
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 21828
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0345491602
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345491602
ASIN: 0345491602
Publication Date: January 29, 2008
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With the Vatta’s War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back–and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta. Once the black-sheep scion of a prosperous merchant family, Kylara now leads a motley space force dedicated to the defeat of a rapacious pirate empire led by the mysterious Gammis Turek.
After orchestrating a galaxy-wide failure of the communications network owned and maintained by the powerful ISC corporation, Turek and his marauders strike swiftly and without mercy. First they shatter Vatta Transport. Then they overrun entire star systems, growing stronger and bolder. No one is safe from the pirate fleet. But while they continue to move forward with their diabolical plan, they have made two critical mistakes.
Their first mistake was killing Kylara Vatta’s family.
Their second mistake was leaving her alive.
Now Kylara is going to make them pay.
But with a “fleet” consisting of only three ships–including her flagship, the Vanguard, a souped-up merchant cruiser–Kylara needs allies, and fast. Because even though she possesses the same coveted communication technology as the enemy, she has nowhere near their numbers or firepower.
Meanwhile, as Kylara’s cousin Stella tries to bring together the shattered pieces of the family trading empire, new treachery is unfolding at ISC headquarters, where undercover agent Rafael Dunbarger, estranged son of the corporation’s CEO, is trying to learn why the damaged network is not being repaired. What he discovers will send shock waves across the galaxy and crashing into Kylara’s newly christened Space Defense Force at the worst possible moment.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 space epic June 26, 2008
Anna del C. Dye (Utah, USA)
The first thing you need to do is get a hold of the other three books of the Vatta's War series. They are fast moving and full of excitement throughout the series. There are space battles, spies, other people who do not like what is going on, murderers and a lot of plots and some of those in your own family. If you like SF and space travel, and are looking for something exciting... you should give this series a try. You may be more than entertained; you may have a great time... of course that is up to you.
Anna del C.
Author of "The Elf and the Princess"
The Elf and The Princess: The Silent Warrior Trilogy - Book One (The Silent Warrior Trilogy)
Honor's Little Sister April 9, 2008
Sci Fi Fan (St. Louis)
Ky Vatta will be Honor Harrington when she grows up. I read all five books in this series straight through. Do yourself a favor, read them in order. Elizabeth Moon has earned a spot on my "favorite authors" list.
 Ms. Moon is in Command March 4, 2008
bugfinder (Los Angeles, CA United States)
A good series just gets better. Her ability to write epic stories in multiple volumes is well proven. This is space opera at it best.
Note to the new comer. This is truely a serial story and you do need to start at the begining.
 Lame story with lame characters February 21, 2008
Josh (Cranston, RI USA)
Title says it all. This series has gotten steadily worse with each new volume. The writing is awful and the plot is contrived. I find myself repeatedly rereading paragraphs in order to discern their meaning. Moon just doesn not write very clearly.
Slugging My Way Through This Series January 20, 2008
Peter R. Berry (Florence, SC USA)
Well this is the fourth book of this series and I feel at this point I'm so invested in this series I'm compelled to continue on. The first book starts out OK and does set things up for novel after novel to continue but it's painstakingly slow. So much of these novels involve fixing their ships, shopping, trading, and getting into some breech of etiquette on some space station that she and her crew have to flee for their lives. Come on, get on with it already and let's have some action! Command Decision gives us that action finally. Hopefully her upcoming book hit's the ground running. The 4 books so far in this series could have been condensed into 1 or 2 easily or the author could have given us 4 books with a lot more action and not so much shopping and trading.
Why do these Science Fiction writers all write their stories in series. I'll go to the book store and find what may be a great book but then notice it's Book #7. What? I have time to read 6 other previous books to get to the one I'm looking at?
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