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WESSHAR WARS SERIES
CITY OF PEARL - #1
Philip K Dick Award finalist
HarperCollins, March 2004
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CROSSING THE LINE - #2
HarperCollins , November 2004.
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THE WORLD BEFORE - #3
Campbell Award finalist
HarperCollins Eos, October 2005
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MATRIARCH - #4
Campbell Award finalist
HarperCollins Eos, October 2006.
(Also available in leatherbound signed first edition from Easton Press.) |
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ALLY - #5
HarperCollins , March 2oo7.
Philip K Dick Award finalist 2007 |
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JUDGE- #6
HarperCollins, April 08
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STAR WARS BOOKS
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CLONE WARS - adult novel based on the CLONE WARS animated movie. July 2008, hard cover. |
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ORDER 66 - coming in September 2008, book four of the Republic Commando series.
(Please note this will not be the cover on sale.) |
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LEGACY OF THE FORCE: REVELATION - February
2008, book eight of the Legacy of the Force series.
#1 New York Times bestseller |
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LEGACY
OF THE FORCE: SACRIFICE - June 2007, book five of the Legacy
of the Force series
New York Times bestseller |
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LEGACY
OF THE FORCE: BLOODLINES - September 2006
Book two of the Legacy of the Force series. Also
available in a hardcover special edition from the Science
Fiction Book Club.
New York Times bestseller |
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REPUBLIC COMMANDO: TRUE COLORS, number three
in the series, October
2007.
New York Times bestseller
Contains the short story ODDS |
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The
sequel to Hard Contact, book two of the REPUBLIC COMMANDO
series: TRIPLE ZERO - March 2006
USA Today bestseller
Contains the short story TARGETS (Also available from the Science
Fiction Book Club in a hardback duology with HARD CONTACT.)
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STAR
WARS - REPUBLIC COMMANDO: HARD CONTACT - October 2004
USA Today bestseller
(Also available from the Science
Fiction Book Club in a hardback duology with TRIPLE ZERO) |
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CROSSING THE LINE
"I am struck by Traviss's empathy for her driven, often unhappy
characters...also striking is (her) willingness to kill off sympathetic
characters and put others through serious suffering as they find
the strength to face unhappy facts and do the necessary...City
of Pearl had me thinking of Le Guin and Eleanor Arnason in its
picture of the irreducible alieness of aliens and of Nancy Kress
in its portraits of abiding human folly and fortitude. To those
I would now add C. J. Cherryh's "Foreigner" sequence...for
the examination of diplomacy and love across species lines. Anyone
who has enjoyed any of these writers should find many of the same
pleasures (and useful discomforts) in Crossing the Line and
its companion volumes."
Russell Letson, LOCUS November 2004.
"In her debut novel City of Pearl, Karen Traviss took
space voyagers, warring extraterrestrials and alien/ human interactions...and
gave those tropes new life. The tale continues in Crossing The
Line, with at least one more book to follow, and it's just as
compelling ...this is no phony teaser, for Traviss clearly has no
need to hook the reader with trumped-up suspense. What we get next
time will be the real thing."
Faren Miller, LOCUS January 2005
"Somehow I managed to overlook the first volume in this spectacular,
thoughtful space trilogy, City of Pearl, when it was released
this spring. The silver lining is that I was able to spend a more
sustained time in Traviss' world of ethical aliens and humans of
varying intentions. ...think Sheri Tepper meets Jo Clayton, as Traviss
handles a number of conflicting perspectives with assurance and
respect. Highly recommended."
Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious
Galaxy
"Everything Traviss brought to the table in her debut novel
is on vivid display here - her ability to convey how, in a realistic
manner, humans and intelligent alien life would interact. Again,
here Travisss ability to draw fully realized characters that
you can empathize with, if anything, is on greater display in Crossing
the Line. "
Stuart Carter, SF Site
(Full review)
"..English SF at its very best ... If you want to read something
that will leave you thinking, perhaps if you're a fan of Ursula
K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson or, more generally, of intricately
gloomy English science fiction, then this series is one you want
to read -- I promise. "
Rob Bedford, sffworld.com (See
full review.)
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CITY OF PEARL
(EASTON PRESS EDITION: if you can't find the leatherbound signed
first edition of City of Pearl on the Easton Press web site, please
contact Easton Press direct - it's not listed by name on their site
so you'll have to ask for it if you're not already a subscriber.)

"...a thoroughly competent and satisfyingly complex tale of
human/alien interaction on a colony planet which at times evokes
the earlier moral fables of Le Guin... at other times the revisionist
critique of expanding human empires... ..a writer worth watching."
Gary Wolfe, LOCUS
"City of Pearl....makes the old tropes new again. Traviss
handles everything with a mixture of panache and restraint....it's
a bravura performance, a first novel sure to make next year's Locus
Best list."
Faren Miller, LOCUS
"One of the things that makes the book so interesting ...(is)
the skilful working of point of view, in which we get to see characters
from inside and out, to lovely and often ironic effect.... City
of Pearl provides large quantities of what I read SF for: situations
and characters that test our assumptions about our natures and our
relationships with others and offer opportunities to wear some very
different skins."
Russell Letson, LOCUS
"...not only an entertaining and utterly satisfying read,
it is a thought-provoking novel that raises profound questions about
the role of humanity in the universe."
Paul Goat Allen, Barnes and Noble - see the full
review
"...intensely satisfying ...what makes City of Pearl
such a good read is its unsentimentality and its clear sightedness."
Dr Farah Mendlesohn, New
York Review of Science Fiction
"City of Pearl is a strong first installment and marks
the debut of a writer to watch. Traviss takes what could have been
a rote collection of characters (marines, cops, religious extremists)
and slowly adds depth, complexity and color."
Gavin Grant, BookPage April 2004
"...quite outstanding...fast paced and very political piece
of SF that is both in the thick of the genre and fresh and interesting
at the same time."
Cheryl Morgan, Emerald
City, Best SF of 2004.
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STAR WARS: REPUBLIC COMMANDO:
HARD CONTACT

"Karen Traviss ably introduces readers to the men inside the
clone commando uniforms, while writing a good military SF yarn that
could take place in any universe. My reading choices made for some
surreal dissonance this holiday season. My son received the "Star
Wars Trilogy" GameBoy game, and was merrily offing random anonymous
storm troopers, while I keep thinking of the boys in Hard Contact!"
Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious
Galaxy
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