I’ve been meaning to read John Ringo and James Aidee’s Beyond the Ranges for a bit now, but only finally got around to it because I’m sick with a cold. It’s clearly the first book in a series about planetary colonization, with a healthy dose of mysterious precursors and the need for developing a functioning economy in the process. Started slow, but picked up. Check it out.
#commissionearned
Decided to start up John Ringo’s BLACK TIDE RISING series again, from the start. Thus… UNDER A GRAVEYARD SKY. I also have an idea for a story in that universe, but I’m not well known enough yet to get away with writing it.
#commissionearned
I’m putting up David Weber and John Ringo’s March Upcountry (Empire of Man Book 1) mostly as a reminder that it’s time for me to reread the series. It’s a good series, mixing survival and political machinations in an entertaining fashion. Check it out… no, wait, you probably already have.
Freaking finally. I was actually whining to Baen’s Twitter account about why John Ringo / Mike Massa’s zombie-apocalypse River of Night wasn’t up yet. But it’s here. If you hate e-ARCs, you can always pre-order, of course. I don’t judge.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I have spent most of the last week or so fitfully asleep and/or mildly delirious. I reread a bunch of stuff, when I was reading at all, and I was not particularly concentrating on what I was reading. But I have been haunting Baen.com for the E-ARC of John Ringo and Mike Massa’s River of Night (the next one in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series), so I guess that should count, hey? …No, it’s not up at the site. It’s not even coming out until July. But I wants it, I do.
David Weber and John Ringo’s* Empire of Man military science fiction series was great fun: if you’ve never read it, Empire of Man (Books 1 & 2) and Throne of Stars (Books 3 & 4) have been collected for your amusement. Worth your time to peruse, if you haven’t. Although I imagine that Weber / Ringo fans are not exactly under-represented among my own readers…
*I originally wrote that as ‘David Ringo.’ Which is not a slam, I swear.
Finally. The Valley of Shadows is set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series; and if you haven’t tried that series out yet, I recommend it. In Black Tide Rising, it’s not so much the zombies that are the problem; it’s that most of the people are gone and the remainder are constantly stuck busting their asses to keep civilization running. So, not nihilistic: just very, very grim. …And lots of guns! Which makes things less grim, at least to read about.
Anyway, The Valley of Shadows (written by Ringo, and Mike Massa) takes up a part of the story from the first book of the series, and runs with it. I look forward to finding out to those particular folks. I kind of wondered.
I picked John Ringo’s and Mike Massa’s The Valley of Shadows (set in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series) not because it’s out. It’s not out. It won’t be out until November. But it is being published by Baen, which means that they will release the E-ARC sometime… soon? Maybe? Maybe putting it out there now will remind somebody else to pull the trigger on the E-ARC, and then I can get it, and then maybe this twitch in my eye will go away.
Come on, Baen. It’s been a while since the last Black Tide Rising book. Have a heart. Release the E-ARC. Let me give you my money.
Just finished the Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints E-ARC, and I read Grunge and Sinners a while back. They’re interesting books: Larry Correia and John Ringo managed to create a hero who I like and want to succeed, while at the same time seeing him as an utter a*shole. That’s harder than it looks! But, well, Correia and Ringo. They give good pulp action.
And so, adieu to Theodore Rex.
Continue reading Book(s) of the Week: Monster Hunter Memoirs series.
We’re getting a short story collection (Target Rich Environment) from Larry Correia in September, a new Honor Harrington (Uncompromising Honor) from David Weber in October, and a new series in the Black Tides Rising universe (The Valley of the Shadow) from John Ringo and Mike Massa in November. Plus I could have sworn that a new Heirs of Alexandria book was coming down the pike, but maybe not. These three from Baen are going to be worth it, right there. It’s been years since we had an actual Honor Harrington Honor Harrington novel. Can’t wait!
