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The Amazon Legion

Carrera, Book 4

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The Amazon Legion

Auteur(s): Tom Kratman
Narrateur(s): Piper Goodeve
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On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike. And, with this help of his second wife, he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory. But his fight is not over yet....

The problem of the Tauran Union's control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth remains, as does the problem of the nuclear-armed United Earth Peace Fleet, orbiting above the planet. The Taurans will not leave, and the Balboans - a proud people, with much recent success in war - will not tolerate that they should remain.

And yet, with one hundred times the population and three or four hundred times the wealth, the Tauran Union outclasses little Balboa in almost every way, even without the support of Old Earth. Sadly, they have that support. Everything, everyone, will have to be used to finish the job of freeing the country and, if possible, the planet. The children must fight. The old must serve, too. And the women?

This is their story, the story of Balboa's Tercio Amazona, the Amazon Regiment.

©2011 Tom Kratman (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Militaire Science-fiction Fiction Mariage Système solaire Guerre
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I don't think I've ever read a novel that seriously tackles the idea of women in the armed forces. It's rare to see an author dealing with the consequences of the differences between the sexes and the facts of how men and women interact. I can't speak to how closely the results resemble reality, but it must be noted that one shouldn't trust public relations departments or activist academics to explain how women have integrated into armed forces. They have too much of a vested interest in promoting a given policy or ideology.

A military should seek to maximise within its numbers the best possible combatants it can find and train. In this, the novel acknowledges that, by and large, men will be better than women. It thus unashamedly employs different standards for the female units. Men and women are segregated, by the way. This is to simultaneously enable more women to graduate, prevent overall standards from decreasing, and also prevent conflict. It also prevents improper fraternisation within a unit.

There a lot of detail I'm not going to cover. It suffices to say that various arguments for and against women in the armed forces are dealt with. Again, I can't speak to the real-world accuracy, but it's mostly convincing.

Piper Goodeve is a much better narrator than the regular one for this series. She doesn't present quite the breadth of voices that some narrators can achieve, but her voice is clear and she acts out the characters quite well. I'm actually going to miss her voice when I move on to the next volume.

Best volume in the series so far

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