PG's Books

Unfortunately this book series by John Ringo didn’t improve with the second book in the series. The characters and the action are still written in the John Ringo style which of course is a good thing and it’s essentially what makes the book worthwhile to read.

The story however, is just so implausible that it drags down a lot of the book. The Higgs Boson nonsense continues of course but that would be expected since it’s pretty much the foundation for the “science” in the series. It’s still as much science as flying pigs though but since I knew what I could expect it wouldn’t have bothered me if that was the only issue.

However, in the last book, the humans where almost invaded and conquered, possibly on the brink of extinction. Yet, in this book, instead of starting a massive space program, the cobble together a spaceship from an obsolete navy submarine. Submarine in space? What the f…? They even built it in secret because the humans still seems to engage in petty politics and national secrets. This is just not believable. The science also continues to be nonsensical. For instance, in one place it is mentioned that it’s really cold in space so the heat collected should dissipate quickly when they stop to “chill”. Christ, there’s also vacuum in space. Heat does not dissipate quickly in vacuum.

Then there’s the issue of someone having censored the colorful language in the book by replacing the words with nonsensical terms. Normally not a big deal but it was really annoying in this book.

As I mentioned above, the characters and action is still in the John Ringo style. I’m also interested in knowing where the story goes in the end. There’s some loose ends, especially one concerning their “stardrive” that I’m quite keen on seeing what’s happening to so I’m going to read the series to the end but I definitely have liked the other works by John Ringo, that I’ve read, more.