John Ringo
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Council wars volume 1
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English
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A utopian future world in which there is no disease, poverty, war, or ill-timed death is turned upside down when the council that controls the Net quarrels and goes to war, leaving survivors battling across an apocalyptic landscape.
2) Emerald sea
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Council wars volume 2
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English
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Edmund Talbot and Herzer Herrick are sent to the Southern Isles to enlist the aid of the mer-folk--people who had altered their bodies into the shape of mythical sea dwellers--in the battle against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.
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Council wars volume 4
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English
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"When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan Trevante have been assigned the mission to capture the spaceship that supplies the fuel for the whole world. Given that Herzer vaguely thinks orbital decay is something having to do with teeth it should be ... interesting. With all the usual combat expected...
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Council wars volume 3
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English
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The world had bee a paradise until the Fall and the ensuing civil war. The United Free States felt well defended behind its screen of elite Dragon carriers. But when New Destiny proved to have dragon carriers of its own, and more of them, the linchin of the UFS defense went out the window. Edmund Talbot, the newly appointed head of the UFS navy is faced with turning defeat into success.
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English
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With the planet Mars rapidly changing from red to gray, scientists send a probe to investigate the situation, and discover that the planet is being used as a staging ground for an invasion of Earth by a robotic race intent on destroying human civilization.
6) Manxome foe
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 3
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English
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A leading voice in military SF, best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for an explosive entry from their Looking Glass series. Recovering from their first mission, the crew of the Vorpal Blade-humankind's first interstellar craft-is called into emergency action when an alliance gate colony is attacked. Who was the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened at the colony? And dare the Vorpal Blade's battle-weary...
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 1
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English
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Formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo brings unmatched authenticity to his military science fiction. When a subatomic physics experiment causes a massive explosion, interdimensional gateways open in Florida-and aliens pour out. Some intend to bring Earth to its knees. Others seem willing to help, but will annihilate the planet if Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller can't stop the menace from...
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 4
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English
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Best-selling author John Ringo-a former member of the elite 82nd Airborne Division-and real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor bring an unmatched level of authenticity to their action-packed military science fiction. Claws That Catch is the fourth volume from their popular Looking Glass series. Humankind's only interstellar craft, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to investigate an ancient civilization that may have left vital technology behind....
9) Vorpal Blade
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 2
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English
Description
One of the unquestioned masters of military science fiction, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for this action-packed sequel to Into the Looking Glass. The alien Dreen are still a terrifying menace across the galaxy, but Earth has a new weapon-the first human warp ship. Aboard the Vorpal Blade, America's tough-as-nails Force Recon Marines seek the Dreen, hoping to bring the fight directly...
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When an airborne zombie plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family takes to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope. For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and...
11) Live free or die
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Troy rising volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
Hero Troy Vernon wages war against the Horvath, Earth's alien conquerors, determined to free his enslaved world and to take the first steps into space using off-world technologies. If he succeeds, his ultimate plans will lead to the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation"-- Provided by...
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Bolos volume 11
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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SOL-0045, a bolo on a mission that would end the civil war, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a young boy stands in his way and SOL begins to question whether or not bolos have souls.
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
15) The hot gate
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Troy rising volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
Description
The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die-and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia...
16) Citadel
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Troy rising volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu. But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning, and Troy (a two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation) is humanity's best hope of survival.
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Last judgement's fire series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that. Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt . . . to an extent. Without electricity, human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed. Chuck Gibson never thought he'd have to leave his family's farm....
19) Queen of wands
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Series
Special circumstances volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
Soccer mom and demon fighter Barbara Everett struggles to break a spell that has placed her assistant, Janea, into a coma that causes Janea to confront her respective identities in numerous alternate dimensions.
20) We few
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Series
Prince Roger MacClintock series volume 4
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English
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Prince Roger MacClintock was heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man and a spoiled young brat, that is, until he and his Royal Marines were stranded on the barbarian planet Marduk. So far, they've traversed a continent, taken over an enemy spaceport, and hijacked a starship.