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Patty Jansen

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Author of 카지노싸이트 Fiction and fantasy and non-fiction.

Author of the Ambassador series, the Icefire Trilogy, For Queen And Country series and the Return of the Aghyrians series.

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Today 27 April 2025

Today when it is pouring rain outside, I mull about what makes books special, which is very difficult to define.

For the vast majority of people, the magic doesn’t lie at the sentence level. Good sentences simply communicate meaning. Once they do that (and they *must*), they add little extra value.

It’s mostly also not about the overarching plot. A lot of beginning writers worry about writing simila

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Average rating: 3.92 · 13,536 ratings · 1,610 reviews · 138 distinct works ‧ Similar authors

	Seeing Red (Ambassador, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 1,243 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire & Ice (Icefire Trilogy #1) 3.34 avg rating — 1,191 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watcher's Web (Return of the Aghyrians, #1) 3.44 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword & Magic: Eight Fantasy Novels 4.23 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galactic Empires: Seven Novels of Deep Space Adventure by Patty Jansen (카지노싸이트 Author), M. Pax (카지노싸이트 Author), Mark E. Cooper (카지노싸이트 Author) 3.84 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Icefire Trilogy: The complete series (Icefire Trilogy: a dark, epic fantasy series) 3.87 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Adventures: Eight Complete Adventure 카지노싸이트 Fiction Novels by Patty Jansen (카지노싸이트 Author), Aurora Springer (카지노싸이트 Author), M.T. McGuire (카지노싸이트 Author) 3.92 avg rating — 312 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raising Hell (Ambassador, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing Fate (Ambassador, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sahara Conspiracy (Ambassador, #1.5) 4.08 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Patty Jansen

Ambassador (12 books)
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Icefire Trilogy (3 books)
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Return of the Aghyrians (4 books)
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3.61 avg rating — 1,056 ratings

For Queen and Country (6 books)
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3.68 avg rating — 638 ratings

ISF-Allion Universe (3 books)
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“Stop. You’re going to make an excuse for not being normal and I have no interest in hearing that. Honestly, people always talk about ‘normal’ as though it is something to aspire to, but that’s a load of crap. Normal isn’t an achievement, it’s a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting. You”
― Patty Jansen, Galactic Empires: Seven Novels of Deep Space Adventure

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“But the habit of noble families to send their unruly and entitled sons to other noble families in order to get them straightened out was not one she understood.”
― Patty Jansen, The Idiot King

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“Nova shoved the spare space suit at Midnight. "Put this on!" Steel cursed and looked down at his own suit. "There are holes in this." Nova groaned, reached into her pocket, and tossed him a roll of duct tape. "Never go hunting aliens without duct tape. Tape yourself up!”
― Patty Jansen, Galactic Empires: Seven Novels of Deep Space Adventure

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