The author bio sounds like one of those guy's I'd run into occasionally, you know the type: trying to secede whatever state they live in from the union, don't own a social security card or if they do it's one of their own making. Intelligent, but that type of intelligence that's been turned on its ear and is just making them rabid and crazy as fuck.
And for some reason the book is getting good reviews. Either they're from the author's same cult/church/minute man group or it's actually well written aside from being nuttier than a fruitcake. :D
Yeah, which is particularly scary considering that Baen is a mainstream SF publisher and has published several books by this guy. BTW, I checked out his website and if the two short stories he has there are anything to go by? The book isn't well written.
Baen also do Michael Z Williamson. I read his Better To Beg Forgiveness book, which was basically 120 pages of how AWESOME private contractors are and how much Williamson hates the UN, military admin, animal rights activists, lefties, tourists who go to foreign countries and aren't scared, everyone in Afghanistan and Iraq (and I think some bits of Somalia), military admin, and... well, then I stopped reading.
I found out it was part of a series with a book called Freehold, the plot being about a magical colony world where everything is Galt's Gulch style libertarianism and it is THE most well-run, peaceful place EVER and everyone has AWESOME SEX and when the EVIL UN try to invade they get WHALLOPED, man!
Williamson has said Baen "prefer self-reliant themes". Between him and Caliphate, I'm sensing this might be code for "to the right of Judge Dredd".
Point, point. They also published John Ringo's series that inspired the whole "John Ringo NO!" meme. On the other hand, they also published Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosgian (sp) series and Eric Flint's Ring of Fire books and Mercedes Lackey's SERRAted Edge books.
I mean, I like a good self-reliant hero but since when does self-reliant have to mean screaming douchebag?
Every once in a while one of these flights of fancy gets by the serious censors. Maybe someone thought there was a market for this kind of thing...and what's scarier is that they're probably right.
I probably shouldn't ask this -- for the sake of my blood pressure and the chance that my eyes'll get stuck up in the back of my head but...where did you find these excerpts?
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This is a horrible thing to stumble on in the bookstore when you're looking for some non-European SF/F. DDD:
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And for some reason the book is getting good reviews. Either they're from the author's same cult/church/minute man group or it's actually well written aside from being nuttier than a fruitcake. :D
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I found out it was part of a series with a book called Freehold, the plot being about a magical colony world where everything is Galt's Gulch style libertarianism and it is THE most well-run, peaceful place EVER and everyone has AWESOME SEX and when the EVIL UN try to invade they get WHALLOPED, man!
Williamson has said Baen "prefer self-reliant themes". Between him and Caliphate, I'm sensing this might be code for "to the right of Judge Dredd".
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I mean, I like a good self-reliant hero but since when does self-reliant have to mean screaming douchebag?
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What's great? Ringo himself responded to the review AGREEING with how bad the books are.
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(I am perversely amused and finding it also quite ironic he is married to a woman he met in Panama supposedly).
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It's pretty much the only sentiment I can adequately muster in response to this publication of fail.
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