Trading in Danger & Remnant Population

electronic resource

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2003 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-345-46998-4
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OCLC Number:
234267927

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3 stars (1 review)

Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

Expelled from the Academy in disgrace--and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future--Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity's door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a …

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3 stars

A rather uneven experience. As a long-time Traveller RPG player, I liked the setting and the story even more than they possibly deserved, and the writing was definitely not bad. However I got constantly annoyed by some dodgy political undertones the author seemed to be totally unaware of having, and those happened to rub me exactly the wrong way.

Life is cheap and murder by thugs with clean uniforms is basically shrugged off by a character whose post-teenage anguish we are then supposed to emphasise with. Might makes right and this is not questioned. Powerful private organisations are presented as competent, capable and heroic, governments are foolish, petty and inefficient. If everybody would just understand the of guns and capitalism, the universe would be a better place, etc. The story seems to lack several kinds of self-awareness.

Still, Trading in Danger must be doing something right, because despite my grinding …