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Title: There Will Be Dragons by John Ringo ISBN: 0-7434-7164-4 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (23 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Concept good, follow through not so much
Comment: There Will Be Dragons is the start of a new series by Ringo in which a utopian world (there's enough energy to re-work other solar systems) is taken down through a power (pun-intended) struggle between factions of what passes for the current world government. With most energy sources used in attacks and defenses for those factions, the rest of the world's populace is forced to make due with, at best, medieval technology due to limits placed on maximum temperatures and pressures by an artificial intelligence acting as "Mother" to the world. The central characters have to find shelter, grow food, develop communities, and defend against the bad guys with those limitations while thinking long-term of how to eliminate the deadlock between the two warring forces.
It's a good concept and the first parts of the book handle it well, but the second half ends up being extremely Heinleinesque, devoting itself to a young man joining the defense forces. He has a complex past and has been misled by his "friends", but comes around. He goes through basic training, saves a few lives, finds sex and possibly love, and battles the bad guys. But because the book ends up about him, rather than the rest of the characters (and they are an interesting lot, or would be if they had more "screen time"), it simply is not as interesting as it could be.
It is quite readable, but it is not the best of Ringo's work.
Rating: 1
Summary: Yeech--You coulda done better!
Comment: I've read other stuff by this author and liked it--especially the "March To..." series. But this was deadly. Deadly dull, deadly slow, deadly stupid. The heroes were almost too dumb to live--just couldn't figure stuff out even tho' it practically BIT them on the ass. The dialogue was stiff; the characters were 2-dimensional; there were several unneccessary scenes that slowed the action; BACK-story IN the story and missing explanations! And the dragons of the title still hadn't appeared by page 411 when I quit reading in disgust. Yeech! Ringo needs a much better editor--or SOMEone to tell him the facts of "story."
Rating: 4
Summary: VERY GOOD START
Comment: THERE WILL BE DRAGONS is the first episode in a new series by John Ringo. To be honest I really didn't want to like this book. I am so angry with Ringo for what he has done, or better yet not done, to the MARCH and the Posleen series, that is take a wonderful story and drive it straight to hell!
As much as I wanted to trash it I can't. It is a truly good story with exciting, vibrant characters, great storyline (not very original, see EARTH ABIDES, THE STAND, ALAS BABYLON, etc.) but when your dealing with a high tech civilization being reduced to pre-industrial revolution levels it's a darn good one. Although the basic storyline isn't original the way he gets there is.
Do I RECOMMENDED it? Yes, it's too well written not to. I enjoyed it, but I'm still afraid that about two books into the series good ol' Mr. Ringo is going to get bored again and leave us hanging with either no follow-up, or even worst a pathetic thrown together ending like that crud in HELL'S FAIRE. But, where there's life there's hope...
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Title: Crown Of Slaves by David Weber, Eric Flint ISBN: 0743471482 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Far Side of the Stars by David Drake ISBN: 074347158X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Course of Empire by Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth ISBN: 0743471547 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Ring of Fire by Eric Flint ISBN: 074347175X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Hell's Faire by John Ringo ISBN: 0743436040 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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