Susan Elizabeth Norris Moon

1945 -

Bibliographie

The Speed of Dark  (©2002)
Lunar Activity. 1990 -- short stories -- revised and expanded as: Phases  (©1997)   384 pp., Stories
Remnant Population  (©1996)   339 pp. ("Die letzte Siedlerin")

Serien : Deeds Of Paksenarrion / The Legacy of Gird
Liar's Oath  (©1992)   472 pp.
Surrender None : The Legacy of Gird  (©1990)
The Deeds of Paksenarrion  (©1992)   1040 pp.
Comment: Combination of all 3 book in the series in one trade paperback.
# 3 Oath Of Gold  (©1989)   528 pp.
# 2 Divided Allegiance  (©1988)   528 pp.
# 1 Sheepfarmer's Daughter  (©1988)   506 pp.

Serie : Familias Regnant
# 7 Against The Odds  (©2000)   544 pp.
# 6 Change Of Command  (©1999)   320 pp.
# 5 Rules of Engagement  (©1998)   497 pp. ("Waffenschwestern")
# 4 Once A Hero  (©1997)  ("Heldin wider Willen")
      Heris Serrano  (©2002) Buch 1 - 3
# 3 Winning Colors  (©1995)   409 pp.
# 2 Sporting Chance  (©1994)   383 pp.
# 1 Hunting Party  (©1993)

Serie : Planet Pirates
The Planet Pirates  (©1993)   864 pp. Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye
Sassinak  (©1990)   333 pp. Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon

Ladies Aid and Armor Society tales

• "And Ladies of the Club". 1995 -- in Chicks in Chainmail

• "No Pain, No Gain". 1998 -- in Did You Say Chicks?!

• "Fool's Gold". 1999 -- in Chicks 'n Chained Males

• "Sweet Charity". 2000 -- in The Chick is in the Mail

Heris Serrano

ISBN:0-7434-3552-4, $18.00
Trade (December 2000) 

enthält:
Hunting Party, Sporting Chance,  Winning Colors 

Dicker Schinken mit 1041 Seiten im Großformat, augenfreundlich große Typen.
Hier erfährt man die Lebensgeschichte von Heris Serrano von dem Zeitpunkt an, an dem sie, unehrenhaft aus der Flotte entlassen, auf einer Privatyacht anheuert, bis zu ihrer triumphalen Rückkehr als Geschwader-kommandant.
Dazwischen lernt man eine Reihe von Vertretern der herrschenden Schicht kennen, lernt (wahnsinnig) viel über Fuchsjagden und das Geländereiten, etwas weniger über die Auswirkungen lebens-verlängernder medizinischer Behandlungen auf das soziale Gefüge eines Sternenreichs, und dass in all den verzogenen Spröss-lingen der Reichen ein wertvoller Kern steckt, wenn man sie nur fordert.
Die Bücher sind in einem sehr lesefreundlichen Stil geschrieben, nie langweilig, eine echte Bereicherung der SF. Lesespaß für lange Abende.
Esmay Suiza, die Heldin der folgenden Roman, tritt im dritten Band übrigens nur ganz am Rande auf.

GV

siehe 2003-02-17

Against the Odds

The last book in the Serrano Legacy

ISBN:0-671-31961-2, $24.00
Hardcover (December 2000)
ISBN:0-671-31850-0, $7.99
Paperback (November 2001)

Heris Serrano has a cruiser--but it's not hers. Somebody else has hers, and her former crew aren't entirely happy. Esmay Suiza has a dizzying fall from Fleet grace, but nothing keeps her down forever. The Terakian cousins tangle themselves in interstellar politics yet again, all because Basil thinks Goonar needs a wife. Brun Meager's wicked uncle Harlis makes the mistake of thinking money can buy the loyalty of those who have none to sell, and Barin Serrano discovers the hidden costs of courage. But heroes have a way of pulling the fat out of the fire one more time, against all odds.

siehe 2003-02-17

Change of Command

ISBN:0-671-57840-5, $21.00
Hardcover (December 1999)
ISBN:0-671-31963-9, $7.99
Paperback (December 2000)

Just when Esmay Suiza thought everything was fine--Brun safely home and her friend, Barin free to marry--someone assassinated the Speaker of the Grand Council, Brun's father, plunging the Familias Regnant into political turmoil. As of that weren't enough, Regular Space Service regulations for officers considering marriage prohibit anyone from marrying a Landbride of Altiplano. And this is before the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand decides to send an assassin of their own....

Rules of Engagement

ISBN:0-671-57777-8, $22.00
Hardcover (December 1998)
ISBN:0-671-57841-3, $7.99
Paperback (December 1999)

Brun Meager and Esmay Suiza were born to be friends--they're both bright, brave, and lucky. But when they first meet, they fight more than agree. Worse, Brun takes a casual liking to Barin Serrano, Esmay's first love. The final explosion sends an angry Brun out looking for trouble, and almost ends Esmay's career.

Brun finds more trouble than she can possibly handle, and her capture by a militant religious militia group threatens to start a war and bring down the government. Brun's father blames Esmay for sending Brun into danger. He doesn't want Esmay anywhere near the rescue attempt--but Esmay is the one person who really understands Brun's way of thinking. Without her, the rescue may go sour.

Meanwhile, Barin Serrano has his hands full with a predatory young officer who is more than willing to take advantage of Esmay's disgrace and force her way into the Serrano family through its youngest serving officer--with or without his consent.

Waffenschwestern.
Autor: Elizabeth Moon
Verlag: Lübbe, Berg.-Gladb.
Format: Taschenbuch (2002)
Preis: EUR 8,90
(ca. DM 17,41)

Heldin wider Willen.
Autor: Elizabeth Moon
Verlag: Lübbe, Berg.-Gladb.
Format: Taschenbuch (2002)
Preis: EUR 8,90
(ca. DM 17,41)

Once a Hero

ISBN:0-671-87769-0, $21.00
Hardcover (March 1997)
ISBN:0-671-57842-1ISBN:0-671-87871-9, $7.99
Paperback (December 1999) (December 1998)

Heldin wider Willen.

von Elizabeth Moon

Die ersten Anmerkungen zu diesem Buch bei Amazon.de sind zum Teil sicher berechtigt. Das Gefühl, mitten in eine Serie gesprungen zu sein, ist echt: "Heldin wider Willen" /"Once a Hero" ist Band 4 der Serie "Serrano Legacy". (Bände 5 – 7 : Rules of Engagement, 1998 / Change of Command, 1999 / Against the Odds, 2000. Die drei ersten Bände (Hunting Party, 1993, Sporting Chance, 1994, Winning Colors, 1995) sind vergriffen. Als "Heris Serrano" sind sie 2000 als 3er-Pack wieder aufgelegt worden, z. Zt. als Trade. Im August kommt die Paperback - Ausgabe, Besprechung siehe oben.)

Die Übersetzung stößt wirklich öfters auf, aber der Inhalt entschädigt den Leser des Buches für Einiges. Allerdings darf man nicht zuviel Action erwarten. Die kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen beschränken sich nur auf einen Bruchteil der 588 Seiten. Auch ist der Gebrauch des militärischen Wortschatzes gegenüber Webers Büchern kaum der Rede wert. Einen Großteil der Geschichte macht die Selbstfindung der jungen Heldin, Esmay Suiza, aus, die nach ihrem ersten Kampfeinsatz erst durch das Aufflammen ihrer seit Jahrzehnten andauernden Alpträume im Heimaturlaub auf die Gründe dafür stößt. Und wie sie damit umgeht, wie sie von Selbstanklage zu Wut und wieder zurück schwankt, das ist wirklich lesenswert. Keine Wischi-Waschi-Traumata wie bei Anne McCaffrey’s Hauptperson Tai in "The Skies of Pern", sondern nachdenklich machende Analysen über Schuldige und Opfer.

Auch bei "Remnant Population" (Die letzte Siedlerin), das für den Hugo nominiert war, war ja nicht die Action das Faszinierende, sondern das Gefühlsleben der alten Frau.

Jedenfalls hat mich das Buch "Heldin wider Willen" dazu bewogen, mich näher mit dieser Autorin zu beschäftigen, und mit Sicherheit werde ich mir die Folgebände nicht entgehen lassen.

Dr. Gert Vogel

siehe 2003-02-17

Sheepfarmer's Daughter

ISBN:0-671-31964-7, $7.99
Paperback (December 2000)

Paksennarion was a sheepfarmer's daughter who didn't fancy settling down and marrying. So she joined the Duke's army and became a mercenary. Here is the first book of the Deed of Paksennarion..

The Planet Pirates

ISBN:0-671-31962-0, $26.00
Hardcover (December 2000)

siehe 2003-02-17

The Deed of Paksenarrion

ISBN:0-671-72104-6, $18.00
Trade (February 1992)

All three novels in the epic trilogy, Deed of Parksenarrion, appear in an omnibus edition that includes Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold.

The Legacy of Gird

ISBN:0-671-87747-X, $15.00
Trade (September 1996)

Looking to her liberator, Gird, who enabled her to become the finest paladin her world had ever known, Paksennarrion learns the story of Luap, Gird's sworn follower and the king's illegitimate son.

Remnant Population

ISBN:0-671-87718-6, $22.00
Hardcover (May 1996)
ISBN:0-671-87770-4, $5.99
Paperback (March 1997)

In an attempt to govern her own destiny, the elderly Ofelia hides and stays behind as the only remaining settler on an abandoned planet and is a witness to a terrifying slaughter of new settlers by stone-age aliens.

Die letzte Siedlerin.
von Elizabeth Moon
Preis: EUR 6,45
(ca. DM 12,62)

siehe 2002-11-09

Winning Colors

ISBN:0-671-87677-5, $6.99
Paperback (August 1995)

Heris Serrano is offered a chance at vindication and reinstatement in her beloved Navy. To make this happen, all she has to do is save the galaxy from an interstellar mafia gone berserk and defeat an invading fleet. But first comes the hard part....

siehe 2002-11-09

Sporting Chance

ISBN:0-671-87619-8, $6.99
Paperback (September 1994)

Heris Serrano and her employer Lady Cecelia uncover a plot against the heir to the throne.

siehe 2002-11-09

Hunting Party

ISBN:0-671-72176-3, $6.99
Paperback (September 1994)

"Heris Serrano, having been forced to resign her commission in the Regular Space Service...has to take a position as captain on a rich woman's interstellar luxury yacht. She discovers all is not as it seems.... Lots of action and well fleshed-out characters mark this outer space thriller." --Kliatt

Sassinak

with Ann McCaffrey

ISBN:0-671-69863-X, $6.99
Paperback (June 1999)

Two great writers who go great together tell the story of a young woman sworn to destroy the pirates who orphaned her--even if it takes a lifetime."Don't miss Sassinak. Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey's wonderful novel brings to mind early Heinlein. Sassinak, the female protagonist, is a powerful and lovable creation. I'm looking forward to more of her adventures."--Rocky Mountain News

Generation Warriors

with Ann McCaffrey

ISBN:0-671-72041-4, $5.99
Paperback (May 1998)

The sequel to Sassinak stars Sassy, now an admiral, finally eradicating the planet pirates from the Federation of Sentient Planets with the help of her crew, and the ever-hardy Lunzie.

Phases

ISBN:0-671-87855-7, $5.99
Paperback (December 1997)

Lunar Activity: The best from the co-author of Sassinak -- back and generously expanded with eight new pieces, many never before in book form.

Liar's Oath

ISBN:0-671-72117-8, $5.99
Paperback (May 1992)

When he breaks his promise never to claim his rightful place as the king's heir and decides to use his magic to reach a distant land, Luap finds himself in a heap of trouble, and only the greatest Paladin can rescue him.

siehe 2003-02-17

Oath of Gold

ISBN:0-671-69798-6, $6.99
Paperback (June 1990)

Two realms face an unstable change of rule: in Tsaia, a long Regency is nearly over, and in Lyonya, a dying king has no legitimate heir. The sword which could declare the rightful heir of Lyonya is lost, and Paksenarrion--now a paladin--swears an oath of gold to find it and restore peace to her land.