Patty Jansen

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  • Bibliography:
    89 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2011
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Ambassador

1 - Seeing Red (Sep-2015)
1.5 - The Sahara Conspiracy (Aug-2015)
2 - Raising Hell (Jan-2014)
3 - Changing Fate (Jan-2015)
4 - Coming Home (Dec-2015)
5 - Blue Diamond Sky (Mar-2016)
6 - The Enemy Within (Mar-2017)
7 - The Last Frontier (Aug-2017)

For Queen And Country

1 - Innocence Lost (Mar-2014)
2 - Willow Witch (May-2014)
3 - The Idiot King (Oct-2014)
4 - Fire Wizard (Feb-2015)
5 - The Dragon Prince (Oct-2015)
6 - The Necromancer's Daughter (Feb-2016)

Icefire Trilogy

1 - Fire & Ice (Oct-2011)
2 - Dust & Rain (Dec-2013)
3 - Blood & Tears (Dec-2013)

ISF-Allion

0.1 - His Name In Lights (Jan-2011)
0.2 - Luminescence (Jul-2011)
0.3 - Charlotte's Army (Sep-2011)
0.4 - The Rebelliousness of Trassi Udang (Dec-2011)
1 - Shifting Reality (Dec-2012)
2 - Shifting Infinity (Jul-2015)

Moonfire Trilogy

1 - Sand & Storm (Jun-2016)
2 - Sea & Sky (Sep-2016)
3 - Moon & Earth (Dec-2016)

Return of the Aghyrians

1 - Watcher's Web (Oct-2012)
2 - Trader's Honour (Apr-2013)
3 - Soldier's Duty (Oct-2013)
4 - Heir's Revenge (Jul-2014)

Space Agent Jonathan Bartell

1 - Contamination (May-2017)
2 - Observation (Sep-2017)

Book List in Order: 89 titles

  • His Name In Lights

    ISF-Allion - 0.1

    A novella originally published in the Universe Annex of the Grantville Gazette. On the strongly volcanic and radiation-soaked surface of the moon Io, the smallest mishap means mortal peril, even for artificial humans like Daniel and Oscar. Clones are...

  • Whispering Willows

    A short story, a teaser for a novel For Queen and Country.Friends and family on the farm know that Loesie makes up most of the things she says about magic. So the one time she tells the truth, they don't believe her. ...

  • Raven's Call

    A short story, also published in Realms magazine, and included in the anthology Out of Here by the same author. The evil magician king was killed years ago, but a new court teacher says that one of the royal family, a baby, may have survived. Crown...

  • The Weed Eaters

  • Luminescence

    ISF-Allion - 0.2

    A novellette, published originally in Martian Wave. While diving in the methane lakes on Titan's south pole, Hadie's fiancee is struck by mysterious 'lightning' from a glass sphere. Hadie, a construct, artificial human, battles prejudice and hostilit...

  • Charlotte's Army

    ISF-Allion - 0.3

    In a far future, a fleet of ships hurtles through space on its way to a distant war. Aboard the ships is an army of artificial human soldiers, highly trained and dangerous. Doctor Charlotte West, the neuro-technologist responsible for the soldiers’...

  • This Peaceful State of War

    A short story from Writers of the Future vol. 27. Far in the future, Bianca is the only planet where people have ever found any form of intelligent life. The planet has two species that look remotely humanoid, but none of the human scientists have be...

  • Fire & Ice

    Icefire Trilogy - 1

    Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to th...

  • Blood Red



  • Party, with Echoes

  • The Rebelliousness of Trassi Udang

    ISF-Allion - 0.4

    Short story. Published in the Belong anthology (Ticonderoga publications). Fifteen-year old Ari has plenty of run-ins with enforcers when he smuggles prohibited ingredients for his uncle and other clandestine restaurants in the B-sector of New Jakart...

  • Icefire

    Where magic is dark and gritty, characters troubled and twisted, and victory comes at a heavy price.Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. ...

  • The Far Horizon

    Of all the things ten-year-old Cory Wilson expects to do when he moves to Midway Space Station, saving aliens from humans isn't one. An important conference is about to start at the station, not usually the sort of thing kids care about, not even whe...

  • Out of Here

    This collection contains fantasy and Science Fiction short stories that have all been published previously in venues like the Edge of Propinquity, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Byzarium, M-Brane SF, Realms, and many others. Table of Contents...

  • Watcher's Web

    Return of the Aghyrians - 1

    She’s not your ordinary country girl, even though she might look like one. She casts webs of power, reading the feelings of living beings and telling them what to do. Nobody knows what causes it, least of all her. Her name is Jessica, but most peop...

  • Shifting Reality

    ISF-Allion - 1

    A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who ...

  • Looking for Daddy

    Three weeks ago, Daddy left town with the other volunteer firefighters to fight the fires in the city, and Tom and Mother have looked after the farm. Radios, phones and TV broadcasts have fallen silent, trains have stopped coming and the main road ha...

  • Trader's Honour

    Return of the Aghyrians - 2

    Mikandra Bisumar is useless to her father: she carries the curse of infertility that plagues the Endri people of Miran. Forced to work in the hospital to pay her duty to her proud nation, she dreams of becoming a Trader, one of the people who bring g...

  • The Shattered World Within

    Mentioned in io9's Best Online Fiction. Originally published in Giganotosaurus Like three space stations before it, Zhiminda Station has fallen silent.Zhyara and his crew travel to the very edge of settled ...



  • Soldier's Duty

    Return of the Aghyrians - 3

    Izramith Ezmi is many things: a member of the feared, all-female Hedron guards, a war veteran recently returned from a pointless and bloody mission, and impatient, angry and above all, lonely. With her contract about to run out, she may be on her way...

  • Ambassador

    "The President was alive. I was alive. No idea what the hell had just happened, other than that I was simply alive, and glad of it."

    Nations of Earth Ambassador Cory Wilson had thought the hardest part of his role would be mastering the man...

  • Seven Days To Save The World

    A comic fantasy for kids 9-12Florian is one of those kids who’d rather read than play ball with his friends. Which is just as well because he doesn’t have any friends.Florian is also a fairy prince. Yeah-right. That’s what he says, too, when a ...

  • Blood & Tears

    Icefire Trilogy - 3

    Following the destruction of the City of Glass through an explosion of sonorics, huge numbers of refugees have descended upon the Chevakian capital Tiverius. The refugees are mostly members of the rebel group Brotherhood of the Light, supporters of t...

  • Dust & Rain

    Icefire Trilogy - 2

    Continued from book 1Fifteen years ago, a brilliant scientist built a barrier against the dangerous power that radiates from the City of Glass in the southern land, allowing the citizens of Chevakia to live without fear of their lives. Since then, th...

  • Raising Hell

    Ambassador - 2

    THE SECOND-QUICKEST way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a pr...

  • Innocence Lost

    For Queen And Country - 1

    Johanna sees the past when she touches anything made of wood. A basket made of twigs tells her that an attack on the port city of Saardam is imminent. As daughter of a rich merchant, she belongs to a class where it is forbidden to speak of magic, she...

  • Willow Witch

    For Queen And Country - 2

    The second book in the saga. Johanna, Prince Roald, Nellie and Loesie have been captured by bandits. Touched by evil magic, Loesie behaves ever stranger and may be a danger to attempts to escape. Every step they take brings them closer to the duke wh...

  • Heir's Revenge

    Return of the Aghyrians - 4

    If Miran had princesses, Ellisandra Takumar would be one. Smart, pretty, engaged to a high-profile man, everything a high-class Mirani woman should be. But things are not well in Miran. Many years of boycotts have taken their toll on society, and the...

  • Poor Man's Travel

    Jas Grimshaw works as a mining pilot for the ice harvesting operations at New Jakarta Space Station. In his free time, he's a mindbase traveller. His mind travels on a bullet probe to other parts of settled space to swap bodies while other people...



  • Quarantine

  • The Idiot King

    For Queen And Country - 3

    Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie have come to Florisheim finding many of their kinsmen there. The survivors from the burning of Saardam who have come here are the nobles who were never great supporters the old king, and it is likely that they won’...

  • Seven Days to Save the World: And Other Homework Projects

    Florian is one of those kids who’d rather read than play ball with his friends. Which is just as well because he doesn’t have any friends. Florian is also a fairy prince. Yeah-right. That’s what he says, too, when a strange woman visits his fat...

  • Changing Fate

    Ambassador - 3

    Fifty thousand years ago, a meteorite hit the planet Asto, giving its Aghyrian inhabitants mere days of notice. Three ships escaped the Armageddon. Two went to the neighbouring planet. The third, a massive generation ship, refused to take on refugees...

  • Fire Wizard

    For Queen And Country - 4

    Johanna, Roald, Nellie and Loesie return undercover to the devastated city of Saardam. In the months since they fled, the Fire Wizard Alexandre has ruled the town with campaigns of death and fear, focused on the eradication of the Church of the Triun...

  • Quest

    Eight authors. Eight novels. Eight entry points into fresh, new fantasyworlds.

    If you're a fan of epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, dark fantasy, or just good old adventure stories, you'll want to pick up this bundle and prepare yourself for h...

  • Shifting Infinity

    ISF-Allion - 2

    Melati escaped New Jakarta space station when it fell into Allion's hands. Her family was left behind the enemy lines. She signed up for active duty with the International Space Force in the hope they would liberate the station. Instead, they chose t...

  • The Sahara Conspiracy

    Ambassador - 1.5

    3 December 2114 Cory Wilson is woken in the middle of the night with a summons to appear in the president of Nations of Earth’s office. An aid worker in Djibouti has discovered a shipment of alien guns. As ambassador to gamra, the extraterrestrial ...

  • Seeing Red

    Ambassador - 1

    24 October 2114: the day that shocked the world. Young diplomat Cory Wilson narrowly escapes death in the assassination of President Sirkonen. No one claims responsibility but there is no doubt that the attack is extraterrestrial. Cory was meant to s...

  • New Horizons

    A collection of fifteen short stories and novellas by Patty Jansen. Includes the Writers of the Future winning story This Peaceful State Of War, as well as fiction published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact....



  • The Dragon Prince

    For Queen And Country - 5

    The tyrant Alexandre is gone from Saardam, but a new menace has come: the eastern traders in a ship of metal that is said to have been forged with dragon magic. They bring a chest of gold to buy an office in the city. The people don't want them in th...

  • Coming Home

    Ambassador - 4

    The world as we know it is on a certain path to war... Delegate Cory Wilson has returned to gamra headquarters from deep space with a rather unwelcome guest: Captain Kando Luczon of the mammoth Aghyrian ship that has returned after mysteriously vanis...

  • Galactic Empires

    Seven full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.The Backworlds by M. PaxA man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity's outer settlements and prove his father wrong.Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by...

  • The Necromancer's Daughter

    For Queen And Country - 6

    Queen Johanna's position in Saardam is fragile. The Barons and Kings of the countries in the hinterland are not happy that she helped the royal family to survive and is now about to ensure the next generation. They vow to teach this little upstart co...

  • Blue Diamond Sky

    Ambassador - 5

    As Cory takes a well-earned rest and finally submits to proper weapons training, he and a couple of people from his household go on a hunting trip in the marshland between Barresh and the turquoise sea. A bad storm has come through recently and on a ...

  • Sand & Storm

    Moonfire Trilogy - 1

    The entire world laid to waste. There are no second chances.The ancient machine that produced icefire was destroyed twenty years ago, but the deadly magic is again on the increase. No one understands why or where it’s coming from.Massive changes in...

  • Sea & Sky

    Moonfire Trilogy - 2

    Sanity is a lone voice crying in the desert.The world is under increasing threat from unknown sources of icefire, but all the people who have answers are cut off from authorities with the power to mobilise the scientists and armies to keep the world ...

  • Moon & Earth

    Moonfire Trilogy - 3

    The shocking conclusion to the Moonfire Trilogy. Lana han Chevonian is one of the world’s brightest minds on the brink of making a huge discovery. There is only one problem: she is stuck as prisoner in the harem of the Aranian king. She could try t...

  • The Enemy Within

    Ambassador - 6

    Two men went on a surfing trip in a remote area. Only one came back, accused of murdering the other. Sounds simple, right? Not quite, because the alleged murder happened on another planet, the accused is a member of the secretive Pretoria Cartel of s...

  • Contamination

    Space Agent Jonathan Bartell - 1

    Jonathan Bartell is a young man, just out of university, when he signs up for the position of Quarantine Officer at the Orbital Launch Station.He is part of a crop of students who flocked to study exo-biology when bacteria were discovered on Mars, an...



  • The Last Frontier

    Ambassador - 7

    The referendum is on and never has there been more at stake for the people on Earth.The question is simple: does Earth join gamra, the organisation that governs the Exchange, the FTL space travel network?While a “yes” vote would mean big changes,...

  • Observation

    Space Agent Jonathan Bartell - 2

    Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon’s south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However, the professor does not show up to meet them.Vij...

  • The Alabaster Army

    Deadly creatures, hostile climate, and that is just the scenery.For many years, mysterious things have happened on the ice world of Tamer, but when a scientist goes missing from Barresh thought to be on Tamer, Cory is forced to take the issue by the ...

  • Ambassador 8

  • Juno Rising

    A prisoner, a secret he can't remember, and the military force that will destroy planets to get their hands on it. When Fabio Velazquez arrives on the secretive military base on Jupiter's moon Io, he knows two things: one, that he's had his memories ...

  • Extermination

    While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress.He's been asked to take over command of a previously commercial research station, but strange...

  • The Bastard Prince

    She has a dragon, and she’s not afraid to use it.

    Nellie Dreessen is a kitchen maid in the palace of Regent Bernard of Saardam. She has worked for two kings and two regents, has seen two royal families murdered through magic, has seen ghos...

  • The Dragon King

    Take an adolescent boy. Make him angry. Add dragons.

    Saving Prince Bruno from the church crypts hasn't turned out the way Nellie had planned. The boy is morose, angry, hellbent on revenge, and incapable of wielding the power he has been give...

  • The Wizard Priest

    A young prince, an evil wizard, and a city that no longer seems to care.

    Cast out from the palace, Nellie survives in the streets of Saardam with the poor and destitute and a dragon whose behaviour she can't control, but is the key to findin...

  • Red Crystal Desert

    The conflict has brewed for generations, until it has become too big to handle.Cory and his association finally return to Asto on the invitation of his father-in-law, for his official induction ceremony into the Domiri clan. They are housed in a magn...

  • Sorcery & Seers

    Epic fantasy at its best! Satisfy your craving for adventure and magic with 6 novels written by USA Today and International best-selling authors.Prophecies and omens, betrayal and intrigue, monsters and epic battles. Dive into these fantastic realms ...

  • Sword & Magic

    Eight complete epic fantasy novels in one set. All the magic, dragons, castles and quests you will ever need!Innocence Lost by Patty JansenBeneath The Canyons by Kyra HallandThe Last Priestess by Elizabeth BaxterBook Of Never by Ashley CapesStargazy...

  • Sorcery & Warlocks

    Six complete dark fantasy novels.Fire & Ice - Patty JansenDarkness Rising - James E. WisherRequiem For The Wolf - Tara SaundersThe Prince’s Man - Deborah JayThe Ring And The Flag - William L. HahnMuse - Kylie Quillinan...

  • Future Adventures

    Eight complete Adventure Science Fiction novelsWatcher’s Web by Patty JansenEuropa by Aurora SpringerFew Are Chosen by M.T. McGuireThe Truth Beyond The Sky by Andrew M. CrusoeGeneration by J.J. GreenThe Girl Who Twisted Fate’s Arm by George Saoul...

  • Lost Forest Secrets

    The latest book in the long-running Ambassador seriesCeren, the world that's the home of the city of Barresh, has vast swathes of untamed wilderness, most of it tribal land belonging to the meta-human tribes like the Pengali.For many years, illegal o...

  • Permutation

    En route to a job in the asteroid belt, the transport ship that Jonathan and Gaby are travelling on is required to give assistance to a space station in trouble. Astoria Station stopped responding to everything except automated messages. Jonathan and...

  • Dragons & Lore

    A collection of nine novels featuring dragons. The Bastard Prince - Patty JansenThe Black Egg - James E. WisherDragon Storm - Lindsay BurokerEmbellish -  Demelza CarltonThe Blue Dragon - Salvador MercerDragon's Future - Kandi J. WyattBlood ...

  • Elevation

    Verona Rupes, on the ice moon Miranda, is the tallest cliff in the solar system. If you jump off the top, it takes 700 seconds to reach the bottom. What can you do in the most important 700 seconds of your life?Jonathan and Gaby arrive at the ice moo...

  • Re-entry

    On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs. The shop makes a modest profit, but when a cred...

  • Originator

    After having escaped from Kelso Station, Tina and her crew run low on supplies. Both stations they can visit are in pirate hands. They have to make a toss-up which would be the safest. They choose the bigger station. But while they're in the dock, tr...

  • Originator: Re-entry

    After having escaped from Kelso Station, Tina and her crew run low on supplies.Both stations they can visit are in pirate hands. They have to make a toss-up which would be the safest. They choose the bigger station.But while they're in the dock, tryi...

  • The Forgotten War

    Cory has made several commitments to members of the Asto inner circles. He needs to spend time with Thayu's son. He has also been asked to give a favour to a boy of the Azimi clan.What better to do with a couple of pre-teens than to visit the theme p...

  • Survival Mode

    Tina had no choice but to escape Aurora Station on board the Starfighter Manila: the ship was about to blow up and would have killed the entire station.But they're in deep trouble. They have less than half the very minimum crew number necessary to fl...

  • Swarm

    Tina and her crew finally arrive on Olympus, the world that holds the Federacy Assembly. Her initial plan was to go there to present the data the left in a locker on Kelso Station fifteen years earlier, but many things have changed. For one, rather t...

  • The Unfolding Army

    For three months, Cory and his team have hung with Asto's military in orbit, watching as drone armies attacked Earth. They could have helped more had Nations of Earth communicated with the fleet or if they could only find out where these drones come ...

  • Seven Days To Save The World And Other Homework Projects

    One day when bullied Florian comes home from school, he finds a visitor in the caravan where he lives with his father. The woman, who looks older than time, tells him that his father is king of Celestia and has seven days to renew the spell of protec...

  • Dragon Soup

    When Perrin was so desperate that he applied for a job with the Bureau of Magic Abuse, there were two things he didn't realise. One, that he might actually get the job and two, that it would involve working with magic sniffers. And what an annoyance ...

  • Whale Mail

    Picture this: you've somehow come into the possession of a dragon (long story--you can read the previous book if you really want to know, but it's kinda embarrassing, so you don't need to). And you need to return that dragon to the place it came from...

  • Spaceships & Dames

    Nine novels of Space Adventure:Project Charon 1: Re-entry by Patty JansenStarship Waking by C. GockelStar Mage Quest by J.J. GreenChildren of Darkness by James E. WisherFaring Soul by Tracy Cooper PoseySpaceberg by M. PaxGhost by Demelza CarltonTrait...

  • The Rabbit In The Hole

    The Oakhurst School of Magic is going places. They're applying for accreditation as an official institute of Pure Magic, and this will attract more students. But in amongst preparations for the visiting accreditation committee, Mrs. Marsh's rabbit go...

  • Abode

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  • Coming Home:

    • / Science Fiction
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    The world as we know it is on a certain path to war... Delegate Cory Wilson has returned to gamra headquarters from deep space with a rather unwelcome guest: Captain Kando Luczon of the mammoth Aghyrian ship that has returned after mysteriously vanis...

  • The Donner Equilibrium

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  • Geospermia

    • / Science Fiction
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  • A Perfect Day Off The Farm

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Raising Hell:

    • / Science Fiction
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    The second-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a pr...

  • The Sahara Conspiracy:

    • / Science Fiction
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    3 December 2114 Cory Wilson is woken in the middle of the night with a summons to appear in the president of Nations of Earth's office. An aid worker in Djibouti has discovered a shipment of alien guns. As ambassador to gamra, the extraterrestrial or...

  • Survival in Shades of Orange

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  • Swarm: Survival Mode

    • / Science Fiction
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    Tina and her crew finally arrive on Olympus, the world that holds the Federacy Assembly. Her initial plan was to go there to present the data the left in a locker on Kelso Station fifteen years earlier, but many things have changed. For one, rather t...

  • Where the Plains Merge With the Sky

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Patty Jansen has published 89 books.

The next book by Patty Jansen, The Rabbit In The Hole, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Patty Jansen, His Name In Lights, was published in January 2011.

Yes. Patty Jansen has 7 series.
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