John Ringo
1) Vorpal blade
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 2
Description
Several years after an experiment that opened a gateway from central Florida into other dimensions, Doc Weaver, adapts an alien star drive to a nuclear submarine and creates humanity's first warp-capable star ship. The goal of Capt. Steven Blankemeier and Cmdr. Clay White of the Alliance Space Ship's is to scout out worlds contaminated by the alien Dreen.
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Council wars volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
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In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise-and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2008
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The space ship Vorpal Blade is sent out to investigate an unidentified alien assault on a gate colony.
4) Sister time
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Cally O'Neal is offically dead. In her over forty years of being an active secret agent she hasn't used her real name much less spoken to her sister. So when Michelle interrupts a mission, its an unexpected reunion.
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Council wars volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Swords, Sex, and Rockets! Paradise falls. Humanity is thrown back to an age of steel and blood. Now the fuel that powers the ''changed'' world is up for grabs in an orbiting spacecraft. With only days to plan, rough and ready paladin Herzer Herrick must assemble a team of expert warriors capable of both seat-of-the-pants engineering and hand-to-hand combat in space. In the meantime, Herzer must face his own demons as he waits for his emotionally-scarred...
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A 60 kiloton nuclear explosion destroys the University of Central Florida and in it's wake are left doorways to another world. Physicists William Weaver and SEAL Command Master Chief Miller must find a way to close the hostile gates and stop the spead of evil aliens.
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
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"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
9) Yellow Eyes
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Legacy of the Aldenata volume 8
Pub. Date
20070403
Description
In this breathless page-turner, the latest in the Posleen military SF series from Ringo and Kratman (Watch on the Rhine), Latin America falls to the reptilian alien invaders without much struggle, except for Panama. There, members of the U.S. military enlist local forces and desperately resist.
10) Citadel
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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 milieu. 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, Sailors and civilians...
11) Eye of the storm
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After the Earth is invaded by the voracious Posleen, Lt. Gen. Michael O'Neal discovers evidence that the Galactic Confederation's Darhel leaders have been manipulating humanity to keep them from subverting the galactic order. Before O'Neal can take action, a new and totally unexpected threat, the Hedren, disrupt the Darhel sabotage. With the Confederation's capital in danger of falling to the Hedren, O'Neal must organize a counterattack despite widespread...
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 1
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When an airborne zombie plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family takes to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope. For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and...
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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
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"With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation"--Provided by...
14) Hell's faire
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Series
Legacy of the Aldenata volume 4
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Once more unto the breach . . . With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, with a couple of million Posleen behind them and fourteen million to the front, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies
15) Gust front
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Series
Legacy of the Aldenata volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Description
With the help of some alien technology, the humans on two worlds had fought back the ravening Posleen hordes. Now the survivors of Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces take time to regroup and renew themselves, while on Earth they build a new force of recruits, as the Posleen hordes once again prepare to descend on Earth.
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For Cally O'Neal and the O'Neal Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against the tyranny of Earth's Darhel allies, duty lies in the overthrow of the established order. For Major General Michael O'Neal, Cally's father, duty lies in maintaining that order to prevent a reinvasion by the dreaded Posleen.
Underground fighters Cally O'Neal and the O'Neal Bane Sidhe fight to overthrow Earth's tyrannical Darhel "allies," while Cally's father, Major General Michael...
17) Live free or die
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Troy rising volume 1
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Tyler Vernon plans his revenge on the Horvath, who have exploited an interstellar gate to the Earth's solar system in order to destroy three of the planet's cities and announce their intentions to take over.
18) The hot gate
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Troy rising volume 3
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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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Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"BOOK 4 AND CONCLUSION OF THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Islands of Rage and Hope, To Sail a Darkling Sea, and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean...