Vorpal Blade

Looking Glass Series, Book 2

By: John Ringo, Travis Taylor

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

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 to them.©2007 John Ringo &Travis S. Taylor (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"... deals with the arcane mysteries of quantum mechanics, lending ... an absurdist twist appropriately reminiscent of Lewis Carroll." - Publishers Weekly

Enough already

Enough already with the made-up "alien" swear words. I'd rather hear shit, damn, fuck, crap, and asshole than the idiotic sounding "near-misses" supposedly meaning the same things in a fictional alien language. Especially when such words are being uttered by our own American military personnel! Seriously, in 7 years since first contact with aliens *all* our own swear/curse words have disappeared, and suspiciously similar sounding but not quite the same alien terms have become the societal norm? Now, *that's* stupid.

Aside from that complaint, the story is decent, not as good as the first book so far. But, I'm only a couple hours in. (Which should say something about the overuse of the stupid alien swear words issue too, if you think about it.)

tthis was a great story to listen to and i greatly enjoyed it and hope to enjoy the other's.

Reader needs to understand navy terms.

I love the book. I love the story. I do not like how the reader messes up every time the Chief of the Boat is mentioned. It is not C O B! It is pronounced COB, like the corn cob you would get in an uncomfortable place if you messed up like that in front of him.

Still a great story.

One of my all time favorites...except for..

I love this series and have listened to it several times. John Ringo is my favorite military SciFi guy. So I am assuming it was Travis Taylor who decided to invent the slang for this book and the rest of the series. It drives me nuts and takes me out of the story every time some character says, "Mauk this", or "Grap that". It's not even a future SciFi story it's discovered tech so where did all the ridiculous slang come from? The main protag did not use any of the terrible slang in the first book so why is he using it all the time in the later books? He even throws in a few "shiney" which I thought everyone knew it belongs to Firefly and should be off limits. Still well worth the listen.

great story

2 gun mojo. loved the book. love the performance. love the characters. I hope there are more sequels