Clan and Crown

Janissaries, Book 2

By: Jerry Pournelle, Roland Green

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.

Rick has faced facts: This place is going to be home, permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick's chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.

©1982 Jerry Pournelle and Roland Green (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Puts meat on the bones after book one.

Adds a lot of depth to the story and characters after their introduction in book one. Keith Szarabajka was brilliant. Will be looking for more of his work.

Well fleshed out, but the detail is a bit tedious

This level of “fleshed out detail” was much more bearable in the fantastic “A Mote in God‘s Eye” (as well as the succeeding “Gripping Hand”), but here, it just feels like detail for the sake of detail.
If you are a fan of science fiction, you absolutely must read (/listen to) “A Mote in God‘s Eye”!

a story that stands the test time

this is such a great story it's so well written that you don't realize it was written before 1980. it's got so many converging elements that just about any genre would enjoy listening. I'm so glad I gave it a try. thank you audible for making this free it's now in my top 10.

Had trouble Following the characters

Hard to follow the plot when you can’t read member the characters names or the voices that word to change per character
I could follow the first book but not planning on getting the third book

great second book

the mercs from earth take on new issues and some old problems. the aliens return.