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Earth and Fire
Into the fire! The first Earth Girl prequel novella featuring Jarra.
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else uses interstellar portals to travel between hundreds of colony worlds, 17-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, abandoned by her parents to be raised a ward of Hospital Earth, she lives a regimented life in one of their impersonal residences.
Tortured by the knowledge the stars are forever out of her reach, Jarra dreams of learning to fly a plane so she can at least make the skies of Earth her own. She gets her chance to become a qualified pilot, but learning to fly turns out to be far more difficult and dangerous than she imagined, sending her into a literal trial by fire.
EARTH AND FIRE is a prequel novella, set in the distant future of the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl, Earth Star, and Earth Flight).
Note that the first two chapters of EARTH AND FIRE have appeared as the title story in the EARTH 2788 short story collection. The other fifteen chapters are entirely new.
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else uses interstellar portals to travel between hundreds of colony worlds, 17-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, abandoned by her parents to be raised a ward of Hospital Earth, she lives a regimented life in one of their impersonal residences.
Tortured by the knowledge the stars are forever out of her reach, Jarra dreams of learning to fly a plane so she can at least make the skies of Earth her own. She gets her chance to become a qualified pilot, but learning to fly turns out to be far more difficult and dangerous than she imagined, sending her into a literal trial by fire.
EARTH AND FIRE is a prequel novella, set in the distant future of the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl, Earth Star, and Earth Flight).
Note that the first two chapters of EARTH AND FIRE have appeared as the title story in the EARTH 2788 short story collection. The other fifteen chapters are entirely new.
153 pages, ebook
First published July 30, 2015
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Janet Edwards
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Please visit Janet's website to get more information, and sign up for her newsletter if you'd like to be kept informed of future releases.SET IN THE HIVE FUTURE
PERILOUS: Hive Mind A Prequel Novella
TELEPATH
DEFENDER
HURRICANE
BORDERLINE
ADVERSARY
SET IN THE 25th CENTURY PORTAL FUTURE
SCAVENGER ALLIANCE
SCAVENGER BLOOD
SET IN THE 28th CENTURY PORTAL FUTURE
Set in 2781
HERA 2781: A Drago Short Story
HESTIA 2781: A Drago Novel
ARRAY 2781: A Drago Novel
SOL 2781: A Drago novel
Set in 2788, the year before the Earth Girl Trilogy
EARTH 2788: The Earth Girl Short Stories
EARTH AND FIRE: An Earth Girl Novella 1
EARTH AND AIR: An Earth Girl Novella 2
FRONTIER: An Epsilon Sector Novella
Set in 2789, the Main Earth Girl Trilogy
EARTH GIRL
EARTH STAR
EARTH FLIGHT
Set in 2789 directly after the Earth Girl Trilogy
EARTH PRIME: The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories 1
SET IN THE GAME FUTURE
REAPER
EARTH GIRL:-
◾Voted an American Library Association YALSA Teens' Top Ten title for 2014.
◾A Tayshas 2014 choice.
◾Kirkus starred review for a book of exceptional merit.
◾A Kirkus best book of 2013.
◾Booklist starred review for being outstanding in its genre.
◾Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2013.
◾An Amazon.co.uk best Young Adult book of 2012.
◾A Kobobooks.com best Young Adult book of 2012.
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August 12, 2015
Set a year before the beginning of
, this prequel novella features the story of Jarra getting her pilot's license. Enjoyable addition to the trilogy.
, this prequel novella features the story of Jarra getting her pilot's license. Enjoyable addition to the trilogy.
August 19, 2022
After 1st Reading: A really great novella from an excellent author. This is a prequel to one of my favorite series and reading about Jarra, Issette and Keon felt like meeting up with old friends. I'm heading straight on to the next prequel Earth and Air.
After 3rd Reading: I returned to this one after being in Lockdown for over a month. I felt the need for a metaphorical old friend as the literal ones are all "social distancing". Janet Edwards is pretty much the most reliable author I know. If you pick up one of her books you are guaranteed to be swept up in a fascinating story, holding your breath as the characters face the odds, and when you close the book you'll have that rosy warm glow of a book with a satisfying ending. Once more I'm heading straight on to the next prequel Earth and Air.
After 3rd Reading: I returned to this one after being in Lockdown for over a month. I felt the need for a metaphorical old friend as the literal ones are all "social distancing". Janet Edwards is pretty much the most reliable author I know. If you pick up one of her books you are guaranteed to be swept up in a fascinating story, holding your breath as the characters face the odds, and when you close the book you'll have that rosy warm glow of a book with a satisfying ending. Once more I'm heading straight on to the next prequel Earth and Air.
September 14, 2015
Literally a few minutes before I started reading this book, I had completed a different book that could be considered more "high literature" and so it took me a while to adjust to the more simplistic (YA) writing style Edwards uses here. Once I did, though, I remembered how much fun I have with these Earth Girl stories. The pace through the first half of this novella felt rather plodding, but especially once we get to the fire sequences I was really enjoying the tale. I'm pleased that Edwards seems dedicated to continuing to develop this universe (even now that the trilogy is complete) because I genuinely like these characters and it's good to have some light/fun reading to turn to periodically.
January 21, 2019
Having read the "Earth Girl" trilogy, it is always a pleasure to revisit Jarra's earlier life.
Living in a society where portal technology has enabled swift and easy transit from planet to planet, Jarra is one of the "handicapped", a small proportion of people born with a faulty immune system which only allows them to survive on Earth - all other planets produce an immense allergic reaction in this unlucky few which causes death unless they are immediately returned to planet Earth where most of the off-planet parents abandon them. They have become an underclass, a butt of other-world jokes, a stigma, a source of shame, and although their only difference from the rest of humanity is a faulty immune system, they are regarded by many as sub-human.
Jarra cannot leave her planet, but she constantly struggles to reach her goals, and this time it is learning to fly.
Living in a society where portal technology has enabled swift and easy transit from planet to planet, Jarra is one of the "handicapped", a small proportion of people born with a faulty immune system which only allows them to survive on Earth - all other planets produce an immense allergic reaction in this unlucky few which causes death unless they are immediately returned to planet Earth where most of the off-planet parents abandon them. They have become an underclass, a butt of other-world jokes, a stigma, a source of shame, and although their only difference from the rest of humanity is a faulty immune system, they are regarded by many as sub-human.
Jarra cannot leave her planet, but she constantly struggles to reach her goals, and this time it is learning to fly.
January 9, 2020
EarthGirlNovella1
Jarra in 2788 Earth is planet bound, her immune system can’t tolerate space or other atmospheres. At nearly 18, Jarra has been raised by surrogates- people who like her, can’t leave Earth, and have been largely abandoned by their biological parents. But something in Jarra refuses to believe she is just an ape, a throwback to a primitive development that is hampered not just in immunity but intelligence as well. Jarra wants to fly old earth technology—airplanes.
Jarra in 2788 Earth is planet bound, her immune system can’t tolerate space or other atmospheres. At nearly 18, Jarra has been raised by surrogates- people who like her, can’t leave Earth, and have been largely abandoned by their biological parents. But something in Jarra refuses to believe she is just an ape, a throwback to a primitive development that is hampered not just in immunity but intelligence as well. Jarra wants to fly old earth technology—airplanes.
January 4, 2025
Fascinating. The Earth Girl series is "amaz!"
Great characters, interesting perspectives on the future. Problems? I think I have read all the books and novellas in this series. Like an addict I just want more. Thanks to the author for writing them. I encourage everyone to read them, though realistically I know they won't appeal to everyone.
Great characters, interesting perspectives on the future. Problems? I think I have read all the books and novellas in this series. Like an addict I just want more. Thanks to the author for writing them. I encourage everyone to read them, though realistically I know they won't appeal to everyone.
August 15, 2022
Amaz book
February 23, 2017
interesting ideas. portals to the stars, with some humans forced to live on Hospital Earth because of some genetic defect.
March 23, 2016
5/5 stars
Oh man, I loved this^^
I've got myself an ereader yesterday and the first thing I did was getting Janet Edwards Novellas. This is the first I've read so far and it was so interesting^^
I've learned more about the Characters from the Earth Girl series - mainly Jarra, Isette, Keon and Cathan. But it gave me completally new view on the whole world, it was really interesting to learn under what circumstances Jarra learned to fly a plane.
Can't wait to read the next Novellas!
Oh man, I loved this^^
I've got myself an ereader yesterday and the first thing I did was getting Janet Edwards Novellas. This is the first I've read so far and it was so interesting^^
I've learned more about the Characters from the Earth Girl series - mainly Jarra, Isette, Keon and Cathan. But it gave me completally new view on the whole world, it was really interesting to learn under what circumstances Jarra learned to fly a plane.
Can't wait to read the next Novellas!
August 27, 2016
I finished this in one go. I started this just this morning. I love this world and Jarra. Even if not a whole lot of action happened in this novella, I still enjoyed it a lot. Can't wait to read the rest of this series.
February 26, 2018
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December 15, 2015This book was a really fun prequel to the earth girl series, it gave a peek into how Jarra became a pilot and more about her life in next step.
February 6, 2016
Loved it. We need more!
March 1, 2025
Nice to Know that she was not so perfect the first time.
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