Джанет Эдвардс – лучшие книги

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.

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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 barely speaks to her. The alliance is crumbling under the strain of its hardest winter ever, when an old enemy tries to use Blaze as a pawn in a power bid. She thinks her life can’t possibly get more difficult, but then an aircraft carrying three off-worlders arrives in New York.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Into the fire! 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else uses interstellar portals to travel between hundreds of colony worlds, 17-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, abandoned by her parents to be raised a ward of Hospital Earth, she lives a regimented life in one of their impersonal residences. Tortured by the knowledge the stars are forever out of her reach, Jarra dreams of learning to fly a plane so she can at least make the skies of Earth her own. She gets her chance to become a qualified pilot, but learning to fly turns out to be far more difficult and dangerous than she imagined, sending her into a literal trial by fire. EARTH AND FIRE is a prequel novella, set in the distant future of the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl, Earth Star, and Earth Flight). This can be read either before or after the main trilogy. New readers will get a first introduction to Jarra and her 28th century future Earth with this novella, while existing readers will learn more about Jarra’s past and what made her into the girl they met in EARTH GIRL.