Troy Rising
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First the Glatun came, and we learned we were not alone in the galaxy. Then the Horvath arrived, and we learned the galaxy was a dangerous place. But our alien enemies underestimated how dangerous we could be.
It's been over fifteen years since New York Times best-selling author John Ringo's Live Free or Die dropped us into a war we didn't want and couldn't win, or so it seemed. From that first volume through Citadel and The Hot Gate, he let us experience the triumph of the human spirit through our entrepreneurial creativity, native-born toughness, and sheer patriotic stubbornness. We marveled at gargantuan technological accomplishments so well imagined they seemed not only possible but inevitable, and equally larger-than-life characters that seemed just as remarkable and even more real.
Now, for the first time, John has permitted a select cadre of authors to write new stories in his Troy Rising universe. In this volume, you'll find stories of espionage and subterfuge, daring and cleverness, courage and sacrifice, told with heart and humor and, above all, humanity, including an all new short novel by John Ringo and stories by Adam Oyebanji, Mike Massa, Marisa Wolf, Michael Mersault, Casey Moores, Michael Gants, Karl K. Gallagher, Chris Kennedy, and Jason Cordova & Melissa Olthoff.
John Ringo
John Ringo is the New York Times best-selling author of the Black Tide Rising series, the Posleen War series, the Through the Looking Glass series, and more, including the Troy Rising series, of which Live Free or Die is the first installment. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings firsthand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.
Gray Rinehart
Gray Rinehart is the only person to have commanded a remote Air Force tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr. Demento Show. Gray grew up on the coast of South Carolina, where he took the Gray Man, a famous ghost of Pawleys Island, as his "alter ego." He earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Clemson University. Gray retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2006 after a rather odd career. He began as a Bioenvironmental Engineer, became a project engineer, then became a space and missile operator. Over the course of his career, he kept rocket propulsion research operations safe, fought fires as head of a Disaster Response Force, trained Air Force ROTC cadets, refurbished space launch facilities, "flew" Milstar satellites, drove trucks, processed nuclear command and control orders as an Emergency Actions officer, commanded the Air Force's largest satellite tracking station, protected militarily critical space technologies, and wrote speeches for top Air Force leaders.Gray is a Contributing Editor for Baen Books, and his fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and other venues, including numerous anthologies. He is also the author of a variety of nonfiction books, essays, and articles, as well as being a singer/songwriter with four albums that feature science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired songs. Gray is married to the former Lisa Herrington of Georgetown, South Carolina. With his late wife, the former Jill Marie Briggs of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, he has two adult children, Stephanie and Christopher. They all make their respective homes in North Carolina. For more information, visit grayrinehart.com.
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