Storms of Victory, Jerry Pournelle
Storms of Victory, Jerry Pournelle
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Storms of Victory

Author: Jerry Pournelle, Roland Green

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The adventure begun in Janissaries continues.Kidnapped from Earth as they were about to die in battle, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries, like the other human slaves on the planet Tran, will not be missed. Subjects of the Shalnuksi slave masters, they are forced to harvest the priceless drug surinomaz. Now, even as slaves, Earth's transplanted warriors are locked in battle—against each other. But an epoch is ending. As the Demon Star sweeps toward its devastating apex, the slave masters flee the planet to await its annihilation in safety. Soon all life on the planet will cease, leaving it ripe for repopulation.

About Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. He wrote the popular Janissaries and CoDominium series and was the coauthor of several bestselling science fiction novels, including Lucifer’s Hammer, The Mote in God’s Eye, and the New York Times bestseller Footfall. He had advanced degrees in engineering, political science, statistics, and psychology and, in addition to his career as a fiction writer, had for many years written columns on both politics and technology.

About Roland Green

Roland J. Green is the author of the Starcruiser Shenandoah and Wandor series and numerous Conan novels, as well as the coauthor, with Jerry Pournelle, of the Janissaries series.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kat on October 28, 2014

Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. [URL not allowed] Storms of Victory, the third book in Jerry Pournelle’s JANISSARIES series, begins with a wedding and a war council, two events that epitomize Rick Galloway’s interactions on the planet Tran so far — making allies and su......more

Goodreads review by Don on February 21, 2021

Excellent portal fantasy......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on November 28, 2020

Janissaries: Storms of Victory by Roland Green and Jerry Pournelle is the third volume in the Janissaries series. At least until this year, it was also the last. I think Jerry and Roland did a pretty good job wrapping things up in the original three, but clearly there is more to be sung in the balla......more

Goodreads review by Judah on January 09, 2023

Summary Excellent character development, storytelling, combat description, and worldbuilding delivered from a slightly judgmental perspective. Plot The polity of Dranton on the planet Tran faces a series of crises driven by periodic climate change resulting from a trinary star system's orbits. Resolvin......more

Goodreads review by Nick on June 17, 2020

It's not that this is a bad book compared to the first two, but it stops at an odd point...at the end of a key battle, but with major issues not resolved, especially a key discussion between two of the main characters that would have happened sooner if they'd both been from the same cultural backgro......more

Quotes

“Jerry Pournelle is one of science fiction’s great storytellers.” Poul Anderson, praise for the author

“A man who knows not just the military and the future but the great art of storytelling.” Gordon R. Dickson, member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, praise for the author

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