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.

Could have been... but missed the mark

Is there anything you would change about this book?

This had the makings of a pretty cool sci-fi story, and I gave it a shot thinking that the political 'soapboxing' couldn't be as bad some people were making out. Unfortunately it was. At times the Libertarian and right-wing views were SO heavy handed that it actually took away from the story.

great read

one of the best syfi books I've read in a long time, from being to end Great read.

Another John Ringo classic

John Ringo delivers again with a sweeping epic of the near future. He draws on some old sci-fi themes from classic stories of the past, throws in a Howard Hughes-like character, and gives us another great story. Ringo's conservative political views tend to come out in his writing, but are a minor distraction from an otherwise great story. This audio book was well-narrated with good characterization. I am looking forward to Ringo's sequel in what I understand will be a triology. I recommend this one.

THE BEST BOOK!!!!

We are the Grtul. We come in peace. The ring in your sky is a gate to other worlds. We produce these rings and move them into star systems. Use of the ring requires payment. The payment schedule will be sent to you.

In the last ninety million years we have been asked most conceivable questions. We will answer the three most common questions asked and then we will terminate this call.

"By 'anyone can use the ring' do we mean that another species can use it to enter your system?
Yes.
Does that mean that hostile or friendly forces can use it?
Yes.
Are you allowed to block the ring?
No. Goodbye."

This is just a beginning of one of my favourite Science Fiction books
In my opinion this book is a culmination of John Ringo's talent, because I consider it to be his best work yet!!!! All the previous books were just training and sharpening of skills to make this book just the way it is!!!

Alien races and Space battles, technological development and human ingenuity, trade agreements and biblical plagues.
AND THE BEST HUMOUR I READ IN YEARS AND ALL OF IT SUPPORTED BY GENIUS NARRATION!!!!!!!!

Funniest SF book I've read in years

The narrative in this book had me LMAO in public. Can't wait for the next installation.

Great Book

Looking forward to the next. As to the previous reviewer (talk, talk), it is an audiobook - what were you expecting?

good enough to listen to again and again

will listen again in the near future. sometimes a !ittle wordy but a great book

maple syrup war , rules

okay, I agree with almost everything said in this book about politics and liberals.

aliens come to earth. both to conquer and others to trade. Yankees are taught by a good old boy to beat the conquers at their own game.

This is a must for your library!!!

I have re-listened to this series at least 10-12 times!!! Yes the author can be a bit old fashioned in some jargon as well as letting his not so friendly views of liberal views shine through in his works, but this series and Legend if the Aldenatta are a absolutely must have!!! The only thing I don’t like about this series is that it was only 3 books! ...but 3 fantastic books!! ...you may think it starts slow but hang in there...bc it just keeps getting better!!

Overall, just a really fun book

If you like super action packed, fast paced, never ending battles then this Isn't for you. It had had plenty of action and a fair amount of battles. What made it great was the character Tyler and how he thought. If you like witty, and don't mind a little bashing of the liberal mind set, then this was an absolutely amazing book.