Live Free or Die

Troy Rising, Book One

By: John Ringo

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

A Sci-fi meets Humans with War, REALISTIC

This book makes my Short List of MUST HAVE along with the series that follows.
I truly Love this story and it's Main Character who has just right qualities and is exactly in the right place at right time to become the Richest Human Alive and not to give away the secret but you Will LOVE the New Human dominating Currency but you will enjoy pancakes more after this book. LoL!
This character happens to be the man with the skills, ambition and nerve to save mankind.
This is probably my top 2 or 3 space novel series of ALL time and is not so long winded as a true space opera. You will come to Understand the Main Character and learn to love the guy no matter what you do for a living.
I would love for this story to be made into a movie.

John Ringo has depth! This series is a MUST-HAVE!

"Knowledge is Power and Every Book is an Adventure"

Political distraction

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The author's political views have been mentioned in other reviews, but this was just plain distracting. Often I'd find myself removed from the world he created simply because of the author's politics popped up in odd little rants. Eventually, I grew tired of it and simply gave up what would have been a pretty good sci-fi book and hopefully series. In the end he lost me... on to bigger and better things.

Started Great...

I really enjoyed the first half or so of the story, but the later half seemed more a treatise on future tech than a real story. The humor and cleverness of the beginning of the story faded out into a sweeping saga. Clever ideas throughout, but I wasn't enthralled at the end like I had been in the beginning.

old, old, old school style

This review will not describe the plot, which is believable and moves along at a steady pace.

E.E. Smith; Lester Del Ray; H Beam Piper; Murray Leinster; Harry Harrison; Andre Norton; Alan E Nourse
If any of these names evoke fond memories of stories that, although not the most exiting or thought-provoking, are good, solid, well-written, based in actual scientific theory, and are interesting from the beginning to the end, then you'll probably like the Troy Rising series.
Of course it is not exactly like any of the stories from the above authors. It isn't even exactly like any individual stories. It does fit in the same day-in-the-life-of sort of stories - not one story, but a series of stories with overlapping timelines, each adding to the overall story arc.
Mark Boyett was an excellent choice as a reader. His style fits the story very well. It feels more like he's telling a story than reading a book.

A great book and decent narration

Definitely worth listening to. If you like great SIFI then this is for you! I would recommend this book

Not bad. Sorta dragged. If you are PC you might want to avoid

This book started well but really slowed down about 3/4 through when the writer started going into mind/numbing detail about asteroid mining. He also has some racial/political viewpoints that Cancel Culture adherents will definitely have a problem with. So it was okay but nothing like Jack Campbell, Hamilton or other top-flight writers.

meh

garbage story, took too long

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John Ringo is in my top 5

Very well told story. My favorite aspect of John Ringo's style is his witty dialogue, not only is the story meaningfully progressed but nearly every conversation is intriguing, except for the technical explanations. I appreciated the explanations but I got lost in some of them.

If you like John Scalzi, you will definitely like John Ringo.

The narrator is phenomenal as well. You can tell within about ten seconds if a narrator is good and this guy is well above par.

Classic Sci-Fi, Heinlein style

This book reads like it's from the golden age of sci, aliens vs humans with cold war style politics. It's very much in the style of Robert Heinlein, a very technical writing style with a lot of explaination of the physics of what's going on. It seems like it should be tedious with so much technical writing, but in Ringo's skilled hands, the story just flows.

The main charactrer, Tyler Vernon, reminded me of Heinlein's Lazarus Long. The same cranky angry attitude and drive to suceeed completely. The narrator captured the feel of the book perfectly.

Other reviewers talk about latent racism/sexism, but it's far tamer in that regard than the sci-fi classics that clearly inspired this book.

Good!

Not really into sci fi, but this book got me hooked on his series. Can wait until the next installment comes out!