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First Contact Was Friendly: When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the Solar System, the world reacted with awe, hope, and fear. When the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, turned out to be peaceful traders, the world breathed a sigh of relief. Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World: When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership of us 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 with 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 the Horvath. Troy Rising is a book in three parts - Live Free or Die being the 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.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Although I have some trouble with the term Revenuer being a government employee involved in taxation I won't dwell on the aspects of the book that got in the way of my enjoyment of a good read.
JR has created another vehicle for his own brand of Republican Sci Fi and fair play to him, I have enjoyed reading the book which has a good pace and many moments that made me laugh out loud.
The idea of a war fought over a simple product of the Rebs / Mountian folk is genius as a plot driver.
The friendly aliens are a right laugh and the unfriendly aliens easy to hate. So if you like a good Sci romp that has humour, action,a decent plot and the odd rant about how awfull people like me are because we've never done a decent days work in our lives and just get in the way of more wortwhile hard working people with our basic inefficiency then this is the book for you. I will be checking out the next one in the series and am a big fan of JR's work in general.
JR has created another vehicle for his own brand of Republican Sci Fi and fair play to him, I have enjoyed reading the book which has a good pace and many moments that made me laugh out loud.
The idea of a war fought over a simple product of the Rebs / Mountian folk is genius as a plot driver.
The friendly aliens are a right laugh and the unfriendly aliens easy to hate. So if you like a good Sci romp that has humour, action,a decent plot and the odd rant about how awfull people like me are because we've never done a decent days work in our lives and just get in the way of more wortwhile hard working people with our basic inefficiency then this is the book for you. I will be checking out the next one in the series and am a big fan of JR's work in general.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have to agree with Jonathan M. Balmer "Jon Balmer".
If you can get past the all too obvious right-wing convictions of the author and the rather simplistic
worldview or look at international politics you'll be fine reading this book.
One of the big absents in JR's books are the Chinese (my wife is Chinese and I've been a number of
times to that country). But possibly his particular brand of republican is in denial about the
growing prominence of China and the other BRICK countries. Or the decline of the US, or at least the
serious trouble it's in as a 'worldpower'. The author's world view is certainly 'flawed' and it
enters the book...
There is some of the mandatory and juvenile right-wing French-bashing (cuzthe French won't join just
any war the US choses to start no doubt) which was mildly irritating but I can get past it.
I do not need to agree with the author's political views - I take note of it (sometimes admittingly
with a touch of irritation and even exasperation), after all the author creates his own universe.
Back to the book. All and all I find it a good read. Personally I've always liked big ideas and the
mining of asteroids which is found boring by some of the other reviewers makes me wonder whether it would
be possible (without artificial gravity). At times the story is somewhat slow but in the end I find myself
enjoying it and looking forward to the next book in the series and that's really the only thing that matters
in the end.
If you can get past the all too obvious right-wing convictions of the author and the rather simplistic
worldview or look at international politics you'll be fine reading this book.
One of the big absents in JR's books are the Chinese (my wife is Chinese and I've been a number of
times to that country). But possibly his particular brand of republican is in denial about the
growing prominence of China and the other BRICK countries. Or the decline of the US, or at least the
serious trouble it's in as a 'worldpower'. The author's world view is certainly 'flawed' and it
enters the book...
There is some of the mandatory and juvenile right-wing French-bashing (cuzthe French won't join just
any war the US choses to start no doubt) which was mildly irritating but I can get past it.
I do not need to agree with the author's political views - I take note of it (sometimes admittingly
with a touch of irritation and even exasperation), after all the author creates his own universe.
Back to the book. All and all I find it a good read. Personally I've always liked big ideas and the
mining of asteroids which is found boring by some of the other reviewers makes me wonder whether it would
be possible (without artificial gravity). At times the story is somewhat slow but in the end I find myself
enjoying it and looking forward to the next book in the series and that's really the only thing that matters
in the end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is hard work as it is mostly based on dialogue, it's a bit like reading a radio play script (well not quite that bad). There is very little narrative to build any atmosphere which really kills it for me.
If you like to be immersed in descriptive detail that makes you feel your are there, this is not the book for you. I can't give it one or two stars as it's an OK story, just the execution that's not to my taste.
If you like to be immersed in descriptive detail that makes you feel your are there, this is not the book for you. I can't give it one or two stars as it's an OK story, just the execution that's not to my taste.
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Live free or just kill yourself
In my quest to expand my SF reading horizons I picked this off of Amazon's suggestions for me.
It starts well, I liked the humour, the geekyness of the author and his... Read more
It starts well, I liked the humour, the geekyness of the author and his... Read more
Published 22 days ago by A. Kelly
Excellent reading
This book is very well written and a novel approach to science fiction. It is not for you if you are in love with a leftist world view though.
Published 6 months ago by Hugin
Great fun read
If you like Hero journeys, then this is a very good offering of the genre. An excellent bit of escapism, when life gets a bit boring. Read more
Published 7 months ago by BH
Exciting and more than simple fun
I am sorry to say that most reviews of this novel have completely missed the point. Sure, at one level it is a rollicking space adventure and a fast fun read. Read more
Published 8 months ago by John Dark
Boring
I usually like Ringo's bonkers books - the Kildar series are mad but entertaining - and I usually like the right wing bonkers ideas of some sci-fi (like Freehold, a really... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Colin Brown
Right wing drivel
This is poor, Good ole country boys WASP live free the rest die. The story is boring the mining of asteroids is so dull the arrays dull the characters right wing dull. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Borislav Boridin
Total Rubbish
I've bought tons of stuff by John Ringo in the past hat I really enjoyed - up country etc, and a previous reviewer mentioned that he was a right wing fascist - which I thought a... Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. Nicklin
Juvenile, and not in a good way.
This is a very mediocre sci fi romp, not awful, definitely not a work of literature either.
The problem is that this is a very, very thinly disguised piece of EXTREMELY... Read more
The problem is that this is a very, very thinly disguised piece of EXTREMELY... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Russell
Cracking Read
This is the Stuff Mr.Ringo is just so good at - As a Previous reviewer has stated this is American Republican SF, But it's American Republican SF at it's very best. Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. Brooks
Highly recommended
This is a brilliant book thoroughly enjoyed every minute, would highly recommend this to any sci-fi or sci-fi military fan. Can't wait to start the next book, bring it on :D
Published 13 months ago by alclotte
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