He’s either an enthusiastic conservative, or a liberal with superb acting skills. The narration, by Mark Boyett, is a pleasure to listen to. The prose is breezy and the plot is intelligently constructed. You can call this space opera ear candy action-packed. More blatantly self-indulgent is a plot point involving an alien-engineered virus that makes all the blond women in the world soooper horny. Yet, Ringo takes just a tiny bit of, well, satisfaction from the deaths of millions of misguided liberal urbanites. This is just the kind of thinking-through-the-implications work that a good speculative fiction author is required to do. When aliens drop rocks on our cities, the result is that the surviving electorate skews rural.and conservative. In particular, “socialist p***ies” are urged to approach this novel with deflector shields set to maximum.Įven plot points fulfill Ringo’s wishes in surprising ways. Readers who dislike celebrations of conservative culture and Don’t Tread On Me economics are going to have to work very hard to ignore the constant needling. This is a little refreshing, and a lot distracting. It is a robust libertarian brand of politics. In Troy Rising: Live Free or Die, Ringo (and his Mary Sue protagonist, named Tyler Vernon) wear their politics on their sleeves. Most authors reveal those opinions subtly, probably figuring an in-your-face approach will only turn off some readers. Those opinions reveal themselves in authors’ novels. Themes: / Science Fiction / Military / Politics / Aliens / First contact /Īll authors have political opinions.
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