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Patty Jansen

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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December 2010

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Author of Science 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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Patty Jansen’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 13,749 ratings · 1,626 reviews · 140 distinct works • Similar authors

	Seeing Red (Ambassador, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 1,258 ratings — published 2013	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 — 1,198 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) 3.45 avg rating — 848 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 4.22 avg rating — 657 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 (Goodreads Author), M. Pax (Goodreads Author), Mark E. Cooper (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 700 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 — 423 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 Science Fiction Novels by Patty Jansen (Goodreads Author), Aurora Springer (Goodreads Author), M.T. McGuire (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 326 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 — 293 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 — 259 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) 4.09 avg rating — 253 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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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 — 1,062 ratings

For Queen and Country (6 books)
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3.69 avg rating — 650 ratings

ISF-Allion Universe (3 books)
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4.00 avg rating — 342 ratings

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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!”
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message 9: by Patty

Sep 13, 2012 06:17AM

Awesome, thanks! Be sure to keep an eye out for our group freebie on 26-27 Sept. I've posted details on my Facebook page.

Catherine wrote: "Hi, Patty
I have Out of Here loaded into my Kindle Fire on my TBR scroll.
Thanks for friending me. I write scifi too.
Catherine Stine"

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message 8: by Catherine

Sep 13, 2012 05:35AM

Hi, Patty
I have Out of Here loaded into my Kindle Fire on my TBR scroll.
Thanks for friending me. I write scifi too.
Catherine Stine

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message 7: by Savannah

Jan 30, 2012 07:51AM

Patty, thank you for the friendship.

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message 6: by Anna Marie

Jan 19, 2012 06:02AM

Thanks for accepting my friend request, Patty! I am reading Writers of the Future Vol 27 and enjoyed all the layers of This Peaceful State of War so that I had to look you up on Good Reads. I have been working on a couple short stories myself. So thank you for the perfect example of one that is original and satisfying.

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message 5: by Bonnie

May 29, 2011 06:50PM