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Live Free or Die (Troy Rising)
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4.0 / 5
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Baen
Sales Rank:
68991
Binding: Hardcover
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
First Contact Was Friendly When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World When the Horvath camw through, they announced their ownership by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and earth's governments have accepted the status quo. Live Free or Die. To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of Horvath. Troy Rising is a book in three parts-Live Free of Die being first part-detailing the freeing of earth from alien conquerors, the first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system. |
Customer Reviews
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It is different, Wednesday, August 25, 2010
If you want cliff notes on the book skip this review or buy the book.
It's not, thankfully, Kildar, nor Rodger and "Rodger's Own" fighting across a savage planet and piling up a high body count, and it's not as scientifically intense, particles confuse me, as Looking glass, a sequel of which I was hoping would be John Ringo's next book.
It is, however, great John Ringo. The science is there as is his way with believable and full fleshed characters. A real old fashion boy meets tree and saves the planet story. Maybe it's just me but every so often John Ringo's writings puts me in mind of H. Beam Piper with a little less tongue in cheek Keith Laumer thrown in for spice. Which, to me, is high praise.
All in all the book proves you really don't have to be committing genocide in every other chapter to make a compelling story. It may not be the sequel to Looking Glass I was hoping for but is certainly is a suitable substitution.
MikeG
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Page turner, Saturday, August 21, 2010
Typical Ringo, but better. Someone once described his writing style as what would result if Tom Clancy wrote science fiction and I would compare this book to the best of early Clancy. Sure there were some editing mistakes and some of the dialog was a little hard to follow and had to be re-read, but this was a fun book.
This book also reminded me of the spirit of some Heinlein's work (The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) and the early, nation and economy building stories of Eric Flint's 1632 series.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Hard Sci Fi With Hard Science, Saturday, July 10, 2010
This adventure initiates a new series by John Ringo. It is heavy on real science, full of esoteric humor, and of course, because this is Ringo, some societal preaching. The humor is grand and the problems are the product of a uniquely diseased mind. All the blondes in the world going into heat seven days a month? Suddenly having access to the universe and meeting alien races is good, isn't it? What is that pustule on your arm, and why are those well-armed alien critters offering to kill anyone who won't hand over the maple syrup?
Tyler Alexander Vernon is a hard working former IT exec reduced to woodcutting, grocery stocking, and comics conventions to stay afloat. When alien contact has impacted Earth in several senses, he meets a spacefarer at a convention and discovers something to sell to the critter's race. The rest of the story is both galactic capitalism and an exploration of the meaning and costs of freedom.
Yes, I am trying to intrigue you, and not give anything much away. John Ringo's rollicking, wise-assed imagination deserves that when you read this book you get as flummoxed as I did. For fun and insight both, you should read this book.
Reviewed by David Sutton
Rating: 4 out of 5
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