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  • There Will Be Dragons

  • By: John Ringo
  • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
  • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (653 ratings)

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There Will Be Dragons

By: John Ringo
Narrated by: Tim Fannon
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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....

©2003 John Ringo (P)2020 Recorded Books
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sleeper

I almost gave up on this book during the character introductions. It bored me into Oblivion. Then when they started telling the story the book got damn good.

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great book

I loved this story. it is , I think the first book I read by Ringo. highly reccomended.

a future society is cast down over politics. some people want civilization. some only want power.

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This is why we can't have nice things.

John Ringo authors an interesting take on a post-apocalyptic story where, with the mastery over nanites, humanity had conquered most of what defined their limitations, short lifespan, restricted physical form choices, starvation, housing, pollution, energy availability, child birth, &c. All they had to due was give up their ultimate control of their destiny to an advanced AI under the aegis ruling council. What could possibly go wrong!? Well, wrong it did go and threw humanity back to the pre-medieval period of existence with humanity completely unprepared and caught between two factions attempting to wrest control of the AI and either bring humanity under a Rousseau/Caligula fascist rule or a return to the more enlightened, less guarded previous rule.

Book one explores in details the cruelty (murder, rape, pillaging, &c) and difficulty of rebooting a society where humans were forced to become self-sufficient. There is also a large portion of the book spent on the negative effects to women, starting with rape and moving to menstrual cycles and physical constraints. While most of this topic of exploration was interesting, considering that those worries had long since being alleviated, I felt that too much focus was placed on it.

I intend to continue the series with the hope that the saga spends more time moving the story forward and less time spent on the day-to-day human interactions.

Props to Tim Fannon for a well done performance.

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I like the first book

I found Mr. Ringo from the MHI series. I loved what he wrote and not I've started this series.

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Some potential

I had listened to the whole book and didn't gave up.
The book have some potential, but it's not worth the time and effort.
most of the book is a mix of genres and variety of story telling technics, so it's missing the point of writing a good book.

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dystopia, but way in the future

interesting premise... far, far in a technologically advanced, narcissistic culture, mother allows them to struggle....

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excellent SciFi middle ages adventure book

If you enjoy Robert Heinlein, and adventure novels, this novel will keep you listening right to the end and using credits to buy the next book in the series.

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I like this story

this is a good book like the characters, want the rest of the series in this format as well.

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great book. The concept is intriguing

but the end was rushed, and predictable. almost as if they decided not to write a sequel, so ended it in a predictable manner.

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Solid, but not enticing enough

To continue with the series. I really enjoy Ringo’s books but this one is not enough of a foundation to want to go all in. The part towards the end with the insults was really well done!

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