There Will be Dragons
Paradise
Lost
In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death.
The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that
controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have
never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.
But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have
returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of
Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds
that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are
flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his
only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old,
gather like jackals around a wounded lion.
But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion
is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited
until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for
a smith is not all he once was. . . .
Praise for the Science Fiction of John Ringo
“MARVELOUS!” —David Weber
“Explosive. . . . Fans of strong military SF will appreciate Ringo’s
lively narrative and flavorful characters. . . . One of the best new
practitioners of military SF.” —Publishers Weekly
“. . . since his imagination, clearly influenced by Kipling and rock and
roll, is fertile, and his storytelling skill sound, [When the Devil
Dances] is irresistible.” —Booklist
“. . . fast-paced military sf peopled with three-dimensional characters
and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.”
—Library Journal
“If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo . . .
good reading with solid characterizations—a rare combination.”
—Philadelphia Weekly Press
“Ringo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military SF
subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling.” —Starlog
Cover art by Clyde Caldwell
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