I’m including military SF fans, even though The Terrans is not strictly a war story. In The Terrans, we see the beginning of that conflict, and it will keep space opera and military SF fans on the edge of their seats. In her Those Not series the Terran United Planets are in the middle of a devastating and centuries long war. I couldn’t put it down, and almost didn’t go to sleep.įor anyone who has read Johnson’s Those Not to Reason Why series (start with A Soldier’s Duty (reviewed here) and start NOW!) this book is a prequel series. Compelled as in read until 4 am, get up and finish immediately.

I picked Terrans up at lunch Thursday, and became so absorbed that I felt compelled to finish it. Their new enemy, the Salik, seem to be rather familiar with fighting Humans-as if their war against humanity had already begun… Humans have long known that they would encounter more alien species, and while those with precognitive abilities agree a terrible war is coming, they do not agree on who will save humanity-a psychic soldier or a politician.Īfter she is pressured into rejoining the Space Force to forestall the impending calamity, Jackie makes an unsettling discovery. Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator-but the universe has other plans… Jean Johnson’s first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series-set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War…īorn into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council. Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Book Depository Format read: ebook provided by the publisher via NetGalley

The terrans by jean johnson