Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.
Will the People of Earth Bow Down to
Alien Overlords—or Will They Live Free or Die?
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 came 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 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.
The Troy Rising series is a story 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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Product ReviewAn OK yarn, but much too rushed, and little more than a retread of what we've seen before. This could have been 2-3 volumes--and would have been much better in the telling with a little more depth, care and patience. Unfortunately there seems to be a rush to get to cool technology, space battles and killing aliens. So we get another alt neaer-future in which lone hero makes good against all odds, fortuitious (if incredulous) events and wonderous technology, with ensuing slaughter of alien bad guys (and victorious US/libertarian principles). This is like reducing WW-II to "big fight, good guys win". Maybe an OK summary, but hardly a story, and definitely not worth the asking price. Not recommended. [P.S. I've enjoyed several of Mr. Ringo's previous books, but after this, I'm swearing off until he gets an editor or co-author who can go toe-to-toe with him and temper his raw material--not just another slam-bam-thank-you-m'am.]
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Product ReviewGreat space opera with some fascinating physics thrown in for good measure. Fun stuff to read.
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Product ReviewIn this book John Ringo seems to be channeling Conrad Stargard (aka Leo Frankowski's Crosstime Engineer books)....
... in order to set up a space-based economy before the main character dies of old age, some unbelievable events must take place...
...but overall, the science is even more interesting to me than *realistic* plot development...
.... and I am a big fan of both Leo Frankowski and John Ringo!
*note; added 'realistic' to clarify
**(edit MAy01-2010)After the first section of LiveFree the plot was smooth...
I have also been reading the snippets for the next book in this series "Citadel" (on John Ringo's Facebook page) and will most likely buy the eARC...Posted on
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Product ReviewI love Schlock Mercenary, and this tale takes the premise and runs it into the end zone. Thanks, Mr. Ringo, for writing this one.
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Product ReviewYeah, this is a decent world-building boot-strap kind of novel--except more right wing political than Frankowski. (The European Union is described as communist; Fox news is nuetral; there are 'free' clinics where women nurses gives sub-par medical care; the government can't do anything but raise taxes and bungle; white rich men get no love despite trying to understand the leftists and secretly being more competent than everyone else, etc.) If your right wing you'll probably rate it a 5 and for the rest of us the story is good enough to overlook the worldview as this is one of Ringo's better yarns. I give it a 4.
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Product ReviewI had come to find a lot of the Ringo novels to feel like they are just rehashings of his other novels. This is it's own novel, and while I am drooling for a sequel, this book has it's own legs and stands tall.
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