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Ringo, John

Entry updated 20 February 2023. Tagged: Author.

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(1963-    ) US author almost exclusively known for his Military SF, though he has in fact written some other sf and fantasy. He began his career with the first of the Posleen sequence, A Hymn Before Battle (2000), in which a Near Future Earth is informed by representatives of something like a benevolent Galactic Empire that an inimical Alien civilization, the Posleen, is about to mount an Invasion, and that Earth's best recourse is to commit elite troops to the interstellar reaches where the war currently rages. The war does, however, reach Earth as soon as the second volume, Gust Front (2001), and various local theatres of war are subsequently exploited as the sequence ramifies. Cally's War (2004) with Julie Cochrane begins a subseries featuring a tough, noirish female operative, whose subterfuges and exploits are recounted within the larger frame. The overall series tends to repetitiveness, though The Tuloriad (2009) with Tom Kratman, focuses on the defeated remnants of the Posleen horde, brings some depth of field to the enterprise.

Ringo's other series include the Empire of Man sequence, beginning with March Upcountry (2001) with David Weber, is again set in a Galactic Empire, and features escalating Space Opera adventures of a Prince who must earn out his human inheritance; the Council Wars sequence, beginning with There Will Be Dragons (2003), in which a Utopian world is devastated by the forces that made it possible, leaving a Ruined Earth landscape in which Survivalist Fiction tropes unfold; the Into the Looking Glass sequence, beginning with Into the Looking Glass (2005), in which a Near Future Disaster creates a portal to other Dimensions and high-profile adventures ensue; and the Troy Rising sequence, beginning with Live Free or Die (2010), where First Contact via similar portals ends in an Alien Invasion of Earth, resisted, again, by military Heroes who fight back. A relentless similarity does underpin stories whose beginnings seem promisingly varied, but Ringo's energy is never in doubt. [JC]

John Ringo

born Miami, Florida: 22 March 1963

works

series

Posleen

Posleen: Cally O'Neal

  • Cally's War (New York: Baen Books, 2004) with Julie Cochrane [Posleen: Cally O'Neal: hb/Clyde Caldwell]
  • Sister Time (New York: Baen Books, 2007) with Julie Cochrane [Posleen: Cally O'Neal: hb/Clyde Caldwell]
  • Honor of the Clan (New York: Baen Books, 2008) with Julie Cochrane [Posleen: Cally O'Neal: hb/Kurt Miller]

Empire of Man

  • March Upcountry (New York: Baen Books, 2001) with David Weber [Empire of Man: hb/Patrick Turner]
  • March to the Sea (New York: Baen Books, 2001) with David Weber [Empire of Man: hb/Patrick Turner]
    • Empire of Man (New York: Baen Books, 2014) with David Weber [omni of the above two: Empire of Man: pb/David Seeley]
  • March to the Stars (New York: Baen Books, 2003) with David Weber [Empire of Man: hb/Patrick Turner]
  • We Few (New York: Baen Books, 2005) with David Weber [Empire of Man: hb/Kurt Miller]
    • Throne of Stars (New York: Baen Books, 2014) with David Weber [omni of the above two: Empire of Man: pb/David Seeley]

Council Wars

Into the Looking Glass

Special Circumstances

Paladin of Shadows

Troy Rising

Black Tide Rising

Monster Hunter Memoirs

Last Judgement's Fire

  • Gunpowder and Embers (New York: Baen Books, 2020) with Kacey Ezell and Christopher L Smith [Last Judgement's Fire: hb/Dave Seeley]

TransDimensional Hunter

  • Into the Real (New York: Baen Books, 2022) with Lydia Sherrer [TransDimensional Hunter: hb/Dave Seeley]

individual titles

These include initial volumes of projected series.

works as editor

series

Black Tide Rising

individual titles as editor

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