Джанет Эдвардс — новинки

Being a telepath means your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness.

Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time she must face multiple challenges.

While preparing to celebrate the New Year festival of family, Amber’s team have to deal with a case where the stakes grow increasingly personal. The help of Amber’s borderline telepath counsellor, Buzz, becomes crucial.

2408. Humanity has travelled to the stars through interstellar portals, but the rebels and criminals were left behind on a ruined Earth. Eighteen-year-old Blaze is one of the last seven hundred people scavenging a living in an increasingly lethal New York infested by alien predators. Forced to step into the spotlight to help her father defeat a leadership challenge by her old enemy Cage, she’s now adjusting to being deputy leader of the uneasy alliance between the remnants of the Earth Resistance and the old criminal gangs.

As a child, Blaze escaped the firestorm when the London power grid exploded, and a similar firestorm will soon hit New York. The alliance must leave New York this spring or die, but they’re facing the twin threats of a fugitive Cage hiding somewhere in the area, and his old supporters causing trouble within the alliance. When a hunting party fails to return, the situation starts spiralling out of control, and the alliance’s off-worlder guests have a key part to play.

Scavenger Blood is the second book in the Scavenger Exodus series. This is set in the same future timeline as the Earth Girl trilogy, but takes place several centuries earlier, and features an ancestor of the trilogy’s main character, Jarra.

Being a telepath means there is always a new challenge.

Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time a simple case leads on to something far bigger.

This is a case where Amber’s team have to face the unknown and break all the rules they usually follow. Lucas must take centre stage, while Amber has extra burdens she can’t share with anyone. She has a personal mystery to solve, and questions she wants answered, but curiosity is a dangerous trait in a telepath.

Hurricane is the third book in the Hive Mind series. Further books are planned to follow.

Спасти мир может только она. Восемнадцатилетней Джарре приходится нелегко. За участие в рискованной операции по спасению военных она получила высшую из наград человечества и оказалась – вместе со своей инвалидностью – в центре всеобщего внимания. Джарра – одна из немногих, кому не повезло родиться с иммунитетом, не позволяющим выжить на других планетах. И пусть внеземные обзывают ее "обезьяной" и "выродком", Джарра намерена доказать, что девушки с Земли ничуть не хуже остальных. Вот только ее любимой планете грозит опасность из-за чего-то, что может оказаться первой в истории человечества встречей с разумными инопланетянами. Благодаря…

2788 год. Люди заселяют другие планеты и путешествуют между ними при помощи многочисленных порталов. А вот на родной для человечества Земле, пришедшей в упадок, по жестокой иронии судьбы живут только "инвалиды" — люди с врожденным дефектом иммунной системы, не позволяющим находится в других мирах. Одна из них — восемнадцатилетняя Джарра. Лишенная любви настоящих родителей и возможности путешествовать по галактике, девушка намерена доказать, что она ничуть не хуже других.

2408 год. Человечество путешествует по космосу через межзвездные порталы, а на растерзанной Земле остались лишь бунтовщики и преступники. Восемнадцатилетняя Блейз – одна из последних семисот людей, пытающихся выжить в становящемся все более опасным Нью-Йорке. Ее мать умерла шесть лет назад. Брат оказался предателем. Блейз считает своим отцом Доннела, главу хрупкого альянса между остатками Сопротивления Земли и старыми криминальными бандами. Во что верит сам Доннел – неизвестно, ведь после предательства ее брата он едва общается с Блейз.
Она до сих пор цела лишь потому, что считалась слишком незначительной, но теперь, когда альянс балансирует на грани голода, старый враг пытается захватить власть. Крушение самолета с тремя привилегированными межзвездными путешественниками лишь подбрасывает топлива в и без того напряженную атмосферу, и Блейз вынуждена выйти из тени. Сумеет ли сестра предателя убедить Доннела, противоборствующие группировки и иномирцев объединиться и покинуть смертельную ловушку Нью-Йорка? Блейз верит, что неудача повлечет за собой гибель всех, кого она знает, но затем обнаруживает секрет путешественников. Оказывается, ставки гораздо выше, чем жизни семи сотен людей.

Becoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder.

Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time her team arrive too late. Someone is already dead. Someone that Amber knows.

Amber is determined to catch the murderer, but she doesn’t realize who she’s up against, or the true danger of opening her mind to the thoughts of others.

Defender is the second book in the Hive Mind series.

Amber is one of over a million seventeen-year-olds in one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. She’s worried that she only has a year left before she enters the Lottery of 2532 to have her abilities assessed. Lottery will decide her hive level, her profession, her whole future life.

Amber fears that her lack of any obvious talent will mean she’s sent down into the depths of the hive, but her friend, Forge, is addicted to taking risks. When Forge chooses exactly the wrong moment to put himself in danger, Amber must stop worrying about the future, and concentrate on surviving the present.

Perilous is a prequel novella in the Hive Mind series.

In the year 2408, a century after the invention of interstellar portals, seven hundred people scavenge a living in abandoned New York. The respectable citizens have either withdrawn to new settlements in the countryside, or joined the great exodus of humanity to new, unpolluted colony worlds, but eighteen-year-old Blaze is one of the undesirables that neither the citizen settlements nor the new colony worlds will accept. Blaze’s mother died six years ago. She thinks her father is Donnell, the leader of the uneasy alliance between the remnants of the Earth Resistance and the old criminal gangs. It’s less clear what Donnell thinks, since he…

In the year 2519, people on Earth don’t grow old and die any longer, their bodies are frozen and they start a new life in the virtual reality of the Game. Jex is almost eighteen, working twelve-hour shifts, and dreaming of when she’ll be legally adult and begin her long-planned idyllic life in Game. When a bomber attacks a Game server complex, one of the virtual worlds of Game crashes, and eleven thousand immortal players die during emergency defrost. Death has struck Game for the first time in centuries, and Jex is questioned as a suspect in the bombing. With this on her record, Jex will never be allowed to enter the Game, but then one of the legendary founder players of Game offers her the chance to join his investigation into the bombing. Jex must help Hawk catch the true bomber to protect the worlds of Game and save her own future, but the bomber is far more dangerous than anyone realizes.

Amber is one of over a million eighteen-year-olds in one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. She's about to enter the Lottery of 2532, which will assess her abilities and decide her hive level, her profession, her whole future life. Amber's dream is to be level 10 or above, her nightmare is to be a level 99 worker in the depths of the hive. When Lottery discovers Amber is a rare and precious telepath, she must adapt to a new life protecting the people of the crowded hive city. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but she doesn't know she's being hunted herself.

FRONTIER is the first novella in the Epsilon Sector Novella sequence featuring Amalie.

June 2788. Amalie’s the last unmarried girl in Jain’s Ford settlement.

Life on a frontier farming planet in the twenty-eighth century has a few complications. The imported Earth animals and plants don’t always interact well with the local ecology, and there’s a shortage of doctors and teachers. The biggest problem though is the fact there are always more male than female colonists arriving from other worlds. Single men outnumber single women by ten to one, and girls are expected to marry at seventeen.

Amalie turned seventeen six months ago, and she’s had nineteen perfectly respectable offers of marriage. Everyone is pressuring her to choose a husband, or possibly two of them. When Amalie’s given an unexpected chance of a totally different future, she’s tempted to take it, but then she gets her twentieth offer of marriage and it’s one she can’t possibly refuse.

The year is 2781. Lieutenant Drago Tell Dramis is a newly trained fighter pilot heading out on his first mission. This is the moment he’s dreamed of for years, but his dream is turning into a nightmare. Drago’s team leader hates him, and it’s hard to focus on a routine mission when the whole team is anxiously waiting for news of something far more important. A comet is on a collision course with one of humanity’s oldest colony worlds. Today is the last chance to save the planet Hera from total destruction.

EARTH 2788 - The Earth Girl Short Stories
These stories feature some of the characters in the EARTH GIRL trilogy, giving you a glimpse into their very varied backgrounds. The stories are free extras for people who've already read one or all of the EARTH GIRL books, but should also be spoiler free for brand new readers.
These people live on very different worlds with very different cultures, but in the year 2788 they all reach a turning point in their lives. These are the people who are destined to go to Earth, and get caught up in one girl’s fight for acceptance. A fight that will change Earth forever.
EARTH 2788 -The title short story that takes place five months before Earth Girl. Jarra and Isette secretly visit a place that's off-limits for them and get a glimpse at the galaxy.

ALPHA SECTOR 2788 - Short story. It's Dalmora's 18th birthday.

BETA SECTOR 2788 - A novelette. Lolia's life is falling apart.

GAMMA SECTOR 2788 -Short story. Krath's life is literally on the scrap heap.

DELTA SECTOR 2788 - Short story. Fian's father is planning his life for him, but Fian has his own ideas.

EPSILON SECTOR 2788 - Short story. On frontier planet Miranda, Amalie is expected to marry at 17.

KAPPA SECTOR 2788 - A novelette. Colonel Riak Torrek is about to retire.

It's time to risk it all! The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy. Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets. Except now she’s the most famous Earth girl in the universe – but not everyone in the universe is happy about it, nor the fact that she has found love with a norm. Jarra’s actions have repercussions that spread further than she ever could have imagined, and political unrest threatens to tear apart the delicate balance of peace between…

Sequel to Earth Girl.

18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Derided as an ‘ape’ – a ‘throwback’ – by the rest of the universe, Jarra is on a mission to prove that Earth Girls are just as good as anyone else.

Except now the planet she loves is under threat by what could be humanity’s first ever alien contact. Jarra’s bravery – and specialist knowledge – will once again be at the centre of the maelstrom, but will the rest of the universe consider Earth worth fighting for?

A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British author. Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she’s more than just an Earth Girl?
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.
Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.
A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.