Tanya Huff: An Ancient Peace
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bibliogrammaAn Ancient Peace is the first book in a new series by Tanya Huff, featuring Confederation Marines Gunnery Sergeant - now ex-Marine Gunnery Sergeant - Torin Kerr. Torin is a true hero, with many hard missions under her belt, but the thing she’s most known for is that no matter what the situation, she always brings her people home. Not always all of them, but she survives, and those with her survive, far more often than you’d expect of someone with a gift for getting into the worst situations in the galaxy.
No longer a Marine, Torin and her lover, former salvage operator Craig Ryder, have put together a small team of specialists, most if them ex-Marine, all of them with special skills, and take on unusual jobs - Torin can’t stop thinking of them as deployments - for various Confederacy departments.
This time, it’s the Justice Department. They have evidence suggesting that someone has located the ancient grace planet of the Elder Race of H’san, and is trying to break into the tomb that holds the weapons they buried millenia ago when they gave up the idea of war. The mission is a secret one - Humans, like the other Younger Races, are in the Conferation on sufferage, with many of the Elder Races thinking they are still too primitive and warlike to be trusted in galactic civilisation. So Torin’s people have been ordered to go in quietly, track the grave robbers to the secret planet of the ancient dead, and solve the problem by whatever means necessary.
I’ve loved the Torin Kerr stories from the beginning. They started out as some of the best milsf in the genre, and have slowly developed into something that’s still full of action and adventure, but represents a mindset that’s developing beyond warfare. A more evolved set of ethics that defends, but doesn’t conquer.
In An Ancient Peace, Torin and her people finally set the military mindset behind them. Oh, they’re still kickass in the very best ways, but Torin’s allegiances are shifting. Once she was all about her duty to the Marines, and to her people. Then ‘her people’ grew into a larger set, to humanity and the other younger races who’s been used and manipulated by external forces. And now, she’s thinking about peace, and the whole of Confederation, as her people. And she always brings her people home.
No longer a Marine, Torin and her lover, former salvage operator Craig Ryder, have put together a small team of specialists, most if them ex-Marine, all of them with special skills, and take on unusual jobs - Torin can’t stop thinking of them as deployments - for various Confederacy departments.
This time, it’s the Justice Department. They have evidence suggesting that someone has located the ancient grace planet of the Elder Race of H’san, and is trying to break into the tomb that holds the weapons they buried millenia ago when they gave up the idea of war. The mission is a secret one - Humans, like the other Younger Races, are in the Conferation on sufferage, with many of the Elder Races thinking they are still too primitive and warlike to be trusted in galactic civilisation. So Torin’s people have been ordered to go in quietly, track the grave robbers to the secret planet of the ancient dead, and solve the problem by whatever means necessary.
I’ve loved the Torin Kerr stories from the beginning. They started out as some of the best milsf in the genre, and have slowly developed into something that’s still full of action and adventure, but represents a mindset that’s developing beyond warfare. A more evolved set of ethics that defends, but doesn’t conquer.
In An Ancient Peace, Torin and her people finally set the military mindset behind them. Oh, they’re still kickass in the very best ways, but Torin’s allegiances are shifting. Once she was all about her duty to the Marines, and to her people. Then ‘her people’ grew into a larger set, to humanity and the other younger races who’s been used and manipulated by external forces. And now, she’s thinking about peace, and the whole of Confederation, as her people. And she always brings her people home.