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Jingle Stars (Shamans & Shifters Space Opera Book 4) by [Jenny Schwartz]

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When a starship decides to play Santa Claus…

Ahab is a mLa’an artificial intelligence embedded in the starship, Orion. The campaign for AIs to be recognized as full citizens of Galaxy Proper is within reach of its extraordinary goal. The only thing that could stop it now is if an AI did something foolish…like take a space station hostage to save eight orphaned children.

And this is the letter to Santa that starts it all:

Dear Santa
I don’t know if your reindeers work in space. But if you have room in your sleigh after you finish delivering presents to the lucky kids with parents and homes, can you come and get me and my friends? Please? We’ve been good. Well, we haven’t been really bad. We’re on Station Elphame, in the junkyard, and Zoe is sick. She’s bad sick. I think she’d be better on a planet. We don’t need presents. We just need a way out of here. Ollie tried to sneak onto a trampship…he died. Please, Santa, I don’t want any more of my friends to die.
Aiden.

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Shamans & Shifters Space Opera
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Strangely hopeful fantasy and science fiction.

After a varied career working as an alien spacecraft engineer, a time traveler and a cryptid wrangler - and since no one would believe her stories were true - Jenny Schwartz now self-identifies as a novelist. She lives in Australia.

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Daranem

Lovely almost interlude story

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 18 May 2023

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This is so lovely. The kids helping each other and the AI who's done the right thing no matter what. More tricky ethical questions with opposing views. Does it matter who's right? It does to the children. Highly recommended.

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Danni L

Christmas with a twist.

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 25 January 2018

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Ahab’s goals are simple – to learn and grow in the world around him. As an artificial intelligence he, and others like him, can integrate on a technological level that surpasses all the known species of Galaxy Proper. But their artificial state means they’re not yet recognised as equals. While politics is a great concern to his fellow mLa’ans, Ahab is more concerned about nurturing his ability to identify with humans – another race yet to gain recognition in Galaxy Proper. The humans that live in the starship he navigates have claimed him as one of their own. When he intercepts a desperate message from a human child in need, politics, Galaxy Proper, and his position in mLa’an society are the last things on Ahab’s mind because nothing is more important than family.

What a wonderful tale to read over Christmas. Ms Schwartz’s story really tugs at the heart strings. To read what’s happening to the children, and the lengths they go to just to survive on the space station rallied such a mix of emotions. To a child, to believe that someone as magical and powerful as Santa could save them, and then discover one of Santa’s helpers controls a starship instead of a sleigh with technology at the helm rather than ‘eight tiny reindeer’ was such a clever twist. I was amazed at what those kids went through, but at the end – well, that’s when the tears, and the Christmas miracle, really came together. :)

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 20 May 2021

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With the slightest empathy this brings heartbreak, horror, fear, hope, dreaded excitement and trying not to be a spoiler, relief and a proper ending. An awesome novelette to this series and I'm excited to get back to the main storyline of Jaya, Vulf and Ahab.

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 4 December 2017

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Having just finished reading this story with a tear in my eye I thank Jenny for this amazing holiday story full of all the feelings this season brings to the fore. Ahabs actions speak for themselves, enjoy this Christmas story and may Santa make all your dreams come true

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Tessa

The Grinch overcome

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 18 September 2018

This is the story of lost and orphaned children. They live in a space station and have nothing but the clothes and food that they scavenge for. Unfortunately, they are not left alone to the distant care that some station occupants would give them. There is a far more evil force at work, a doctor who sees them as fodder for his experiments.
One day, one of them, Aidan, sent out a message to Santa asking for him to please come and rescue them. This message was picked up by Ahab, the AI who is embodied in Vulf's mla'lan ship. When Ahab reconnoitres the station he discovers that there many laws being broken and that the GP need to be called in. Unfortunately that will be too late for some of the children, if not all. He therefor takes things into his figurative hands and all hell breaks loose.
Another excellent YA novella from Jenny Schwartz!

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Victoria

What a action packed sweet story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 2 June 2023

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I'm enjoying the whole series but this story about Ahab playing Santa is just what i needed today. Maybe i cried a little. In a good way.

D Andy

This little gem gives meaning to “tears of joy”.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 27 April 2023

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What a great read, any time of the year. It’s so easy to think we are powerless to help children in need. The task seems too great, too intractable. But, given an opportunity, Ahab didn’t look away. That’s the message I took from this story: Don’t look away; do what you can to make your little corner of the universe better for a child.

Kimberly Johnson

noooo

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 16 May 2023

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I think I only have one book left!!!!! I’m so invested!!! This author writes the coolest space stories!! I love them so much!!

william j. slattery sr

great story.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 28 March 2023

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Jenny this was a a real heart warming story.I’m a 68 year old veteran and grandfather and in just a few pages you made me love and shed tears for 8 fictional children.GREAT STORY.

AnnieK69

Ahab makes a stand and protects those who can't protect themselves

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 24 April 2021

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Jaya and Vulf take a break from their mission to investigate the Ceph to port hole home, and celebrate with their family the shifters ability to once again shift into their animal form. Jaya meets her father's tiger and step-mothers leopard. Little ones are shifting on their own. Their is much to celebrate.
Ahab, is on his way back to Corsairs as well, but is taking a detour to pick up some supplies he and Vulf deem necessary for their current mission. On the way he intercepts a message form a 8 year old human boy, asking Santa or help in getting himself and his friends off a cartel run space station.
What Ahab finds is tragic and evil. He is determined to save the children no matter the cost.
Getting them off the station wasn't easy. Helping the children feel safe is a bigger challenge. Vulf and Jaya, along with the rest of the family and friends do there best to make them feel welcome while they make there way to Corsairs. Once they arrive they the children welcomed first by Vulf and Jaya then by the Trent family and friends.
What Ahab did has caused concern about what AIs can do. What was done to the children is another concern. Shifters are fierce defenders of who the call family. Children, now mater what, are protected.
Corsairs once again makes a stand along with Ahab. Great series tie in

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