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Title:The Outback Stars (The Outback Stars #1)
Author:Sandra McDonald
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 416 pages
Published:April 17th 2007 by Tor Books
Categories:Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Romance. Fiction
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The Outback Stars (The Outback Stars #1) Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages
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Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero.  She has the medals and the scars to prove it.
 
She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out.  That's a mistake.  The Aral Sea isn't anyone's idea of a get-well tour.
 
Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals.  She's a squared-away officer.  She thinks she can handle it all.  She's wrong.   Aral Sea isn't a happy ship.  And it's about to get a lot unhappier.
 
As Aral Sea enters the Alcheringa -- the alien-constructed space warp that allows giant settler-ships to travel between worlds, away from all help or hope -- Jodenny comes face to face something powerful enough to dwarf even the unknown force that destroyed her last ship and left her with missing memories and bloody nightmares.  Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is about to be introduced to love.
 
Author Sandra McDonald brings her personal knowledge of the military, and of the subtle interplay between men and women on deployment, to a stirring tale that mixes ancient Australian folklore with the colonization of the stars.

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Original Title: The Outback Stars
ISBN: 0765316439 (ISBN13: 9780765316431)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Outback Stars #1
Literary Awards: Compton Crook Award Nominee (2008)


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The Outback Stars is military scifi meets space opera meets Australian mythology. If you are a fan of Elizabeth Moon, Linnea Sinclair, or Ann Aguirre, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this one. Specifically, it reminded me in many ways of the wonderful Games of Command. So if you're a fan of that book like I am, this one might be for you. Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is in a bad way. One of the sole survivors of the destruction of the Yangtze, she's spent months in forced recuperation and can take

Actual rating: 1.75 - didn't "hate it" but it's not really "OK"Yawn...just, yawn.There's nothing terribly "wrong" about this book but there's nothing awfully "right" about it either. The story takes place in an indeterminate future where the Earth has suffered a largely unexplained ecological catastrophe (the Debasement). Humans have discovered what appears to be an alien transportation system (the Alcheringa) that connects seven inhabitable worlds. Team Space, a quasi-military organization,

I'm ... uncomfortable with the whole "false rape allegation" component of this book. I'm also uncomfortable with what might very well be the co-option of Indigenous Australian mythologies, legends, and culture. Much of the "Australian detail" included is linguistic, and familiar, and comfortable to someone who grew up in white-dominated suburbs of Sydney--and I'll admit, I enjoyed sinking back into that voice, something I miss from my childhood. HOWEVER it's a misrepresentation of Australia as a



I loved this book. The way Sandra McDonald wove in Aboriginal mythology was fascinating. I hope she writes a sequel to it.

What I find interesting about Ms. McDonald's story is that so much of it is centered around the structure of the lower ranks of a very large crewed ship with a pseudo military organization. I have read and enjoyed such books before and with a reliance perhaps too much on acronyms and a sleuthing tale that might be a bit predictable, it is a tale that works. I give Ms. McDonald high marks and take off some points for the deep Aboriginal subplot that emerges when tied to how this universes travel

This book was very clearly written by someone who has been in the military. The detailed day-to-day life of a career officer is, well, detailed. There are a lot of minor character names, acronyms and titles thrown around, making it occasionally hard to follow. I could have done without about 1/2 of the first 1/2 of the book. But it certainly shows how important support services are to the military; many if not most jobs aren't glamorous, but they are necessary. I'm not sure why Jodenny was so