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Live Free or Die

Troy Rising, Book One

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Live Free or Die

By: John Ringo
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.Will the People of Earth Bow Down toAlien 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.

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.

©2010 John Ringo (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Government Solar System
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great military sci fi. Practical look at humanity in space and a great yarn. Certainly not fantasy rubbish.

great sci fi

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It's slightly hu-ya America or bust for a foreigners taste, but it's a really good yarn for anyone with a sci fi taste for space. Very funny too at times.

Great

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An old favourite. Humanity at it's best, as it responds to and recovers from alien invasion and control. John Ringo is a superb author, who makes characters of all races (terra-evolved and otherwise) seem as real as you or I. A fine logistical and strategic narrative, as well. Very well narrated.

HFY indeed

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I had my misgivings about this book from the comments posted about the politics that suffuse the narrative; but I'd hoped that it was part of the humour, something playful.

But I just couldn't settle. There was the "politics", but also that I just didn't care for any of the characters. In part I think this was down to the reading, which gave the narrative a hokey sound.

But then I heard "frack", "fracking" and "nimrod" and realised the book was probably more for the juvenile market. Frack and Fracking being silly alternatives to F**k, etc; and "nimrod" I think I first heard coming from the kid character in "Terminator 2". PG13?

The story concept really had some potential.

Hokey ... maybe for kids?

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plus the constant breathing. normally he is a fantastic story teller, but let down by a poor quality book and poor audio quality / editing

can not stand it. not even 20m in and have to stop.

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