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Troy Rising (3 book series)

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by John Ringo (Author)

From Book 1: Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.
Will the People of Earth Bow Down to
Alien 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.

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Live Free or Die (Troy Rising Book 1)

by John Ringo (Author)

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Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.
Will the People of Earth Bow Down to
Alien 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.

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Citadel (Troy Rising Book 2)

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Of all the hosts of Eurotas the Troias were the most fell. For they were born of Winter.
Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, 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. At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people, Marines, Navy and civilians, who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure.
If this Troy falls, no one will be left to write the epic.
Citadel continues the saga begun in Live Free or Die, following the paths of several characters during the first years of The Spiral Arm Wars culminating in the First Battle of E Eridani.

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The Hot Gate (Troy Rising Book 3)

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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 to come.

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Steven Goldmaker

Excellent hard sci fi in need of a fourth book or a much better ending to the third.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2017

If you enjoy your sci fi very hard and technical, this is for you. Interesting characters and story. I would really have docked half a star for the ending though if I could. It just kind of drops off without any resolution to the major geopolitical (or the interstellar equivalent of that term) action. I am really hoping that there will be a fourth book which brings that thread and others to satisfactory conclusions. As it stands, this trilogy resembles a TV series that at the end of its third season tied up the minor plots expecting to come back next Fall and then got canceled, leaving the fans saying WTF happened.
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Steve Procter

A good story let down by padding

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021

Not in the same class as 'Live Free or Die', but a very worthy entry into this trilogy.

This is my third reading of this story & I found myself skipping all the passages with the Dana characters' POV. It read perfectly well. I couldn't understand why the author had inserted her so gratuitously into the story, then I read that his mother had died. So, obviously a tribute to her.

Loved the aliens POV.

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J. Hulstein

Ridiculous, bloated story, with an abrupt, unsatisfactory ending.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2016

Overall - I found the writing to be good most of the time. The author really drew me into some parts of the story very well. In other parts, I felt like the author was having an impatient day writing or something like that, as the story would zoom around like a crack baby full of sugar. Each book had a different feel, with the First book being the best by far (4.5 star) and the last book being the worst (1 star). Since the second book was a 3, and a bad ending just ruins a good book, I cant give this more than 2 stars for the series. The story itself was unique and interesting, though it often lead off into wild tangents and dead ends of plot. It never felt complete, and in some regards not realistic.

Characters - The main character of the series was well developed, but was a rather annoying person as it was his story that mostly zoomed all over the place in a sort of manic depressive way. The secondary character spent half the third book getting to know and seemed like a pretty level headed military gal, but never really felt human, just another rigid construct who was about as flexible as a steel I-beam. The two tertiary characters, one a welder and the other an alien were written in like they were going to be developed more, than they simply fell down as backup or filler for the rest of the series.

Plot - I don't even know where to begin here. The first book, it held together well, had some humor and self contained story, but it strongly led to sequals to finish a greater story, which would have been good if the last two books were not increasingly bad. I would have been happier if the author just stopped there, as the subsequent books simply became less believable and the plot just became a confusing mess of ideas and story lines. The third book, was by far the worst as half the book, was dedicated to the secondary character's problems with the racial mindset of latin american peoples... which left a lot of questions and unfinished bits. The rest of the third book also contains a plethora of unfinished stories and loose ends, and it ends abruptly.

I would liken this series to a television series that started well, and was meant for 3 seasons. With the first season being good, getting good reviews and high ratings, the author decided that his/her series could milk the public's attention by adding extra seasons in the middle. Since the quality of the story goes into the dumpster, the good reviews dry up and the series ends at season 3 anyway, only covering about half the intended story, and the last episode is a hodge podge of crap crammed into to try to tie up loose ends and force some sort of arbitrary finality.

Misc - I liked how the author had a lot of very good scientific seeming stuff in there, with a lot of good explanations, even if he referenced older novels for his ideas within the story. It was a kind of science fiction influencing real life story in many ways. However, the author's military and civilian contractor ideas were very stereotypical and boring, while the main characters humble to hero, turned world 'leader' story was like a power hungry nobodies wet dream.

Don't recommend unless you have a large tolerance for the ridiculous.

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Tyler Smedley

Amazing Series

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022

This was an amazing series. I have listened (Audible) to it at least 4-5 times, am buying the books hard copy after writing this review now. I love the characters, I love the world. The only thing I don't love is that there isn't more. Though isn't that the mark of a great series? That you want more? Thank you Mr. Ringo for this amazing series, and if you would want, please put more out there. Great world, great ideas.

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Philip & Lindsay Gard

Wonderful military scify

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2021

Wonderful military scify that is terribly in need of a fourth and fifth and sixth book!!! J.R. please deliver! I now have reread this series three times so please...please deliver...please

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Darune Albane

Good

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020

Loved the series just wish for a 4th book .. feals unfinished

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Kelly

love Ringo's space opera!

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015

Loved this series, although the second and third book both start rather dry before they get to the point where you can't set them down. The first book also had more humor than either later books. The ending of the trilogy has little in way of conclusion, so feels like it is either forced or unfinished. I'd like to read another book in this series if another was written!

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John Ringo

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I'm a professional author of... Well, I used to say "science fiction." Then came There Will Be Dragons, which is sf with a distinct fantasy twist. Then came Ghost which is techno-thriller crossed with porn. Then came Princess of Wands, a Christian soccer mom battling demons through the power of God. Who knows what's next? Children's books? (I've actually got that one mapped out. You see, there's this girl who is raised by dolphins... You think I'm joking, don't you?)

:-)