Vorpal Blade
By John Ringo
2007
First Published
4.20
Average Rating
486
Number of Pages
Part of Series
The sequel to Into the Looking Glass . William Weaver, PhD. and SEAL Chief Adams are back and Bill got himself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly garage mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship ready to go "out there." But as everyone knows, the people who really are going to bear the brunt are the poor Security guys, Force Recon Marines who are kept in the dark and fed manure all day. That is until they land on an alien planet, get partially wiped out and then load back up again. Ranging in topics from the best gun to kill armored space monsters to particle physics to cosmology to health and beauty tips, Vorpal Blade is a return to the "good old days" of SF when the science problems were intractable and the beasts were ugly. The monkeys are out in the space lanes and ready to rock. As soon as they get another roll of duct tape.
Avg Rating
4.20
Number of Ratings
3,559
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
16%
2 STARS
3%
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Author
John Ringo
Author · 45 books
John Ringo is a prolific author who has written in a wide variety of genres. His early life included a great deal of travel. He visited 23 foreign countries, and attended fourteen different schools. After graduation Ringo enlisted in the US military for four years, after which he studied marine biology. In 1999 he wrote and published his first novel "A Hymn Before Battle", which proved successful. Since 2000 Ringo has been a full time author. He has written science fiction, military fiction, and fantasy. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
