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Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador 1 : Seeing Red by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador 1 : Seeing Red by Patty Jansen

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A political murder, a dangerous alien dictator, a young, inexperienced diplomat.

“I have been reading SCIFI for about 35 years. The Ambassador series is my latest new addiction. I have read the series pretty much non stop.”

Cory is the first person from Earth appointed observer at Gamra, the alien organisation that monitors the FTL travel network. He’s had years of training in alien customs and languages…

… all wiped out the instant President Sirkonen is murdered by an alien entity.

Borders close, military goes on alert, the many aliens living on Earth are considered enemies, and Cory is recalled.

Except he is stuck in the Gamra capital Barresh, and he has some information that may reveal who killed the president, information that requires him to confront the most powerful man at Gamra, from a society where merely looking into the eye of a superior can get you murdered.

Start your Ambassador adventure today.

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Featured Science Fiction: Changing Fate (Ambassador 3) by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Changing Fate (Ambassador 3) by Patty Jansen

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Fifty thousand years ago, a meteorite hit the planet Asto, giving its Aghyrian inhabitants mere days of notice. Three ships escaped the Armageddon. Two went to the neighbouring planet. The third, a massive generation ship, refused to take on refugees, and then vanished without a trace.

It’s coming back.

Its initial burst of communication caused the outage of the Exchange, the FTL network for transport and communication, but since then the ship has been silent. It jumps about at random, using wormholes it generates with a drive the likes of which no one has seen before.

Meanwhile at the gamra assembly, people jostle to be in the best positions when it inevitably turns up in inhabited space. What the ship wants or whether there is anyone on board no one knows, but diplomat Cory Wilson knows one thing: when it turns up, he must avoid a conflict at all cost.

If only gamra presented a united viewpoint. If only Asto’s army wasn’t keen to get involved. If only the Aghyrians at gamra didn’t do what they do best: manipulate and play games with everyone. While the ship approaches, the delegates bicker, and the time for negotiating is fast running out.

Featured Science Fiction: Raising Hell (Ambassador 2) by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Raising Hell (Ambassador 2) by Patty Jansen

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The second-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a prescribed place. These networks provide stability. They also place one person at the top.

Ezhya Palayi is that person.

After having been released by his previous employers, Cory Wilson not only depends on Ezhya Palayi for his income, but he has developed an unusually friendly relationship with this man whom people on Earth would call an absolute dictator, but whose reign is benign.

The third-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people is when the leader you depended on for support is suddenly no longer there, as when he goes missing because the system society relies on for interstellar travel goes down.

In a highly-strung hierarchical society, it won’t be long before someone else tries to claim the top spot, someone less benign, someone aggressive who is likely to destabilise peace between Asto and other worlds.

But by far the quickest way to get yourself killed is, as a non-Coldi outsider, to visit Asto and try to interfere in their hierarchical system, to mess with instincts you don’t feel yourself, and people who are much stronger than you.

Oh, and did you know that the average daytime temperature is well over 50 degrees C?

Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador Omnibus by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador Omnibus by Patty Jansen

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The bundled edition of the first three books in the popular Ambassador series.

1: Seeing Red – Cory Wilson is about to start his new job as representative to gamra, the alien organisation that controls the network for wormhole travel, when a political murder may well end his career before it started. In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder.

1A: The Sahara Conspiracy – Cory is asked to deal with the alien mafia on Earth, and stumbles across a plot that endangers Earth’s fragile peace. You did not hear me say “nuke from orbit”.

2: Raising Hell – the wormhole network goes down, and Cory’s friend and leader of the largest populated world Asto is caught off-world. Dangerous politics are afoot on Asto, and Cory decides to help his friend. Yeah. Famous last words.

This series will appeal to readers who like alien societies that are familiar and disturbingly different at the same time, dangerous political intrigue, edge-of-seat action and characters that are never entirely good or entirely bad.

Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop. There are eight books in the series, with more on the way.

Why not try this one now?

Need more convincing? This is what others say:

A Matt Damon political thriller meets Total Recall action with Avatar otherworldliness. —Ditmar Award winning author Zena Shapter

It is the sign of a great story teller when an intricate political landscape can be seamlessly woven into your brain without you ever noticing. I was well and truly hooked. The hierarchies and customs of various alien races are understandably complex but not too much to lose the reader. The story is fast-paced and twisting as Cory tries to unravel who could perpetrate the attack on the President and why they would do so, while enduring stonewalling and spying from all sides of politics, including his own. — Reviewer at SQ Magazine (sqmag.com/)

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