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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416555537
ISBN number: 1416555536
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: August 05, 2008
Publishing house: Baen
Sale Popularity Level: 5405
Studio: Baen
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as “Bandit Six” an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland—despite the best efforts of politicians both elected and military. The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future, a world that is a darkling mirror of our own. Written “blog-style,” it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science, bad strategy and organic farming not to mention all three at once
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Save your money! An avid science fiction fan, I was very disappointed with this mish-mash. The "blog-style" writing was bad enough - made for a slow read- but remove all the political ranting, you have maybe a short story ... a very short story.
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I'm not sure I liked the blog format, it's different and takes some getting used to.
Like a blog, the story gets distracted and things promised to be addressed, aren't, which I'm sure was intentional. It is, after all, written as a blog.
Ringo, Flint, and Weber are single handedly reviving and advancing Science Fiction, and "The Last Centurion" moves it in an unexpected direction.
While the Left doesn't like the story line, a casual look at the news covering any natural disaster proves without doubt Ringo's "Ant and Grasshopper" theory.
The Ants get up and pick up, the Grasshoppers sit down and wait to be saved and served.
Politically, "The Last Centurion" is a 21st Century "Starship Troopers". Heinlein's work is also hated by the Left, for much the same reasons.
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I have enjoyed many a Ringo book but this is one I could not finish and disliked enough to write a review.
This "book" is just a disguised political manifesto. The world is grey and white, there are conservatives and there are liberals. It is like a Limbaugh show turned into a novel. The lack of thought is spewing the drivel in this novel is amazing. Everything wrong is due to liberals, the world will almost end because of liberals and of course only conservatives save the day.
Just one example of how little thought went into this book. Ringo defends the FEMA performance during Katrina by stating that the M in FEMA is for management and that their charter is to respond within 72 hours of a disaster. Sounds good right. EXCEPT that FEMA had more than 72 hours notice that there was a high likelihood that Katrina would hit New Orleans. Prudent management would mean mobilizing beforehand don't you think and , yes, that is in their charter. In fact for Gustav that is just what happened. The book is littered with propaganda like this, in fact there is little else to the book.
Of course this makes me a liberal I guess because it is clear that there are only two sides in his world.
So if you like or need to see the world as us and them and the need to be CERTAIN of everything and anything then you will no doubt enjoy this as it will reinforce your world view. If you are looking for an entertaining and imaginative sci-fi military fiction read like many of MR. Ringo's other books you will likely be very disappointed
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All "hard" SF authors write at least one book where they propose and go into excruciating detail of their Utopian society, or at least what leads to their Utopian society. Heinlein pulls it off - Ringo does not.
These type of books are usually so message heavy that they loose in readability. This book would dent the table it lies on... Incredibly hard to read, and even tougher to skim in a desperate search for readable non-message pages.
Wait for the subsequent Ringo to come out, and skip this one...
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This book Covers quite a few political as well as socital topics that are very interesting to read about. Ringo keeps you guessing throughout about what will happen subsequent while still keeping things really interesting. His usual sense of humour comes through really well, and the way the book is told through a very first person account just adds a new twist to his great way of telling a story.
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