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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
About the Author
John Ringo began writing for Baen in 2000 with his first release A Hymn Before Battle—the first novel in his Posleen Wars—which has become a New York Times best-selling series with nearly one million copies in print. The series continued with Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell’s Faire and Eye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series: There Will be Dragons, Emerald Sea
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Unimpressive,
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This review is from: Live Free or Die: Troy Rising I (Mass Market Paperback)
I am frankly very tired of reading this formulaic tripe. Yes we now know America is the promised land and if only those corrupt Washington types would let liberty fly and let the Amrican spirit free, humanity would conquer the galaxy. I applaud Mr Ringo's imagination for telling the same story in various forms in his novels.I love my books. I left this one in a hotel library in Chicago, knowing that some Tea Partier would find it and give it a good home, probably on a shelf next to "Simplistic Solutions to Complex Problems".
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3.9 out of 5 stars (31 customer reviews) 28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable reading, author back on his game,
By LT "Sci Fi fan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Live Free or Die: Troy Rising I (Mass Market Paperback)
This was a very enjoyable book to read. The book flowed well and the author is back to one of his strengths - developing characters.The premise of the book comes from aliens putting a 'gate' in the earth system. The first set of aliens are good aliens interested only in trade. The second set take over and demand tribute. Earth is helpless. Enter the hero, Tyler, who discovers an item that the good aliens are crazy about - maple syrup. He parleys this into a fortune which he uses to build an infrastructure to enable earth to resist the bad aliens. One item I liked about this book comes from the author resisting the trap of having 'everything easy' once the hero gets some money and starts out on his quest. This is probaly a personal nit pick of mine but I hate the books where the hero discovers something - usually a technology - and then all things just fall into place, no problems are hard, the technology solves all ills, etc. In this book, without dwelling on them, the author has our hero facing bureaucracy problems from earth governments, politics from alien factions, resource issues, and just realistic issues in general. Another good part of the book comes once the author finally gets a space ship - admittedly very old, bit run down, and only has tugs to use for transport. Then very well educated professionals show up willing to do anything just to get into space. The author did this well and in a humerous fashion without giving away details that may spoil the reading. Instead of going on on this vein, I will summarize. This was an enjoyable book to read. There is good flow, character development, plot, etc that go into a good reading science fiction book. This is not a big battle action/adventure book. It is a good story to read. And, it appears to be the first of a series. 27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A space opera in the scale of Campbell and Doc Smith,
By R. David Morris - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Live Free or Die: Troy Rising I (Mass Market Paperback)
Once upon a time syfy writers had two traits. They wrote using hard science, and they wrote about characters who had no limits. Need a ship with an antenna big enough to find home in another universe? Build the Skylark of Valeron, 3000 miles across. Need to destroy a planet turned into a fortress? Squeeze it between two other colliding planets. John Ringo has written a new novel where the short little main character has no problem thinking big.Tyler Vernon is a IT tech with a sideline in syfy web cartoons when the Aliens arrive and the human planetary economy crashes. The aliens are hundreds of years more advanced in technology, their computers augmentations literally don't even see human computer security protocols. Tyler Vernon looks at things from a different angle and knows what a tramp freighter is really looking for in trade goods. Once trade is established he bootstraps himself into the richest man in the world and starts a private space program. He uses tech the aliens think of as very obsolete to create an incredible space born industry, up to and including melting and smelting entire meteors and planetoids. It all culminates in Troy, a massive space habitat made from a nine kilometer diameter sphere of nickel iron. Read this book. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Like Ayn Rand in Space, Only Better Written,
By Mary Hannah - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Live Free or Die: Troy Rising I (Mass Market Paperback)
To be fair, the novel is engagingly written and despite its focus on the technicalities of how to build up a space empire, it kept me turning the pages. Tyler Vernon, Live Free or Die's entrepreneurial hero, leads humanity in its struggle to become more than the backwater colony of another species with steely-eyed practicality and a fair amount of engineering creativity. All well and good, and if you are a libertarian space nerd or apolitical, you will enjoy this book. If you are not, beware - you'll find yourself being pulled around by your bootstraps before you can say "self-made man." At least a quarter of the dialogue between humans in this book consists of various characters complaining about how ineffective and bureaucratic the U.S. and other governments are. It is out and out stated on a few occasions that humanity is still around because of gazillionaire Tyler Vernon's extralegal, philanthropic efforts to build up Earth's defensive capabilities in space. Only a sharp, rich, independent man like him could save humanity, because no one else could cut through the red tape.In other highlights (SPOILERS AHEAD), our protagonist (with I'm sure what the author thinks of as admirable common sense) says that an alien-sent plague that kills off the elderly, the sick, the stupid, those without access to health care, and a bunch of brown people (most notably those crazy Muslim zealots out there) is actually a net good for humanity since it makes us stronger as a species (Where have I heard something like that before?). In a startling bit of sexism, this plague also makes blonde women go into heat (like dogs) fairly often. This combined with the facts that the author describes almost every woman the protagonist encounters as "stacked" and that the only women who are even mentioned in more than one scene throughout the novel are his daughters did not lend an air of gender-equality to this particular hypothetical future. All this is to say that if you consider yourself a feminist, actively anti-racist, or are not rabidly into free markets, this book is going to be a bit distasteful. |
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