I wonder...if New York ever ate a nuke. Would people actually care?
they already destroyed thoseProbably just over the landmarks and monuments.
I'd miss the museum ships, Grand Central, and the Statue of Liberty.I wonder...if New York ever ate a nuke. Would people actually care?
I'd miss the museum ships, Grand Central, and the Statue of Liberty.
Rest of it....meh.
"Liberal-progressive" Poland gentlemen.
Yeah, that's clearly indicative of, er, certain leanings from the author.Now I'm remembering John Ringo's book about Aliens dropping asteroids on all the major urban centers to threaten a man being persecuted by a Democrat government into surrendering. The book could not quite hide how much glee the dude felt as he refused. That book really was honestly way too self-indulgent what with how fast America became much better after the asteroid bombardment and the virus to force blonde women to rapidly reproduce. Not that we didn't know Ringo had problems after the Kildar books.
Specifically blonde...? Is it me that I am reading too much into it or is it John Ringo's virus in this book sound a tad bit like the Lebensborn program?Now I'm remembering John Ringo's book about Aliens dropping asteroids on all the major urban centers to threaten a man being persecuted by a Democrat government into surrendering. The book could not quite hide how much glee the dude felt as he refused. That book really was honestly way too self-indulgent what with how fast America became much better after the asteroid bombardment and the virus to force blonde women to rapidly reproduce. Not that we didn't know Ringo had problems after the Kildar books.
It literally is, in theory by the aliens. The book was really blatant with the aliens helping out the MC/author insert (though admittedly Ringo made the MC really physically unattractive) with his political goals and sexual fetishes despite theoretically being his enemy.Specifically blonde...? Is it me that I am reading too much into it or is it John Ringo's virus in this book sound a tad bit like the Lebensborn program?
I mean, considering that those mentioned countries haven't been considerably involved in any type of conflict since 1945 (and Sweden since 1815!) He kinda has a point.It literally is, in theory by the aliens. The book was really blatant with the aliens helping out the MC/author insert (though admittedly Ringo made the MC really physically unattractive) with his political goals and sexual fetishes despite theoretically being his enemy.
1) When the aliens showed up, most countries surrendered. The Chinese fought to the bitter end, getting wrecked in the process and thus conveniently eliminating them from future competition despite being lauded for their bravery by the hero. The American (Democrat) government surrendered, but obviously many Americans continued to resist. After repeated failures of the collaborationist government to put down the rebellion, the aliens stepped in and decided to bomb the cities to "punish" the rebels, which the book very unconvincingly tries to convince the reader the MC cares about as he easily ignores it.
2) A lot of countries, despite surrendering, were so corrupt and unproductive they failed to provide the tribute the aliens demanded. The aliens of course were uninterested in nationbuilding, and decided to just kill everyone too incompetent to generate the desired levels of tribute. They released a virus that causes a few sores that harmlessly disappear with basic personal hygiene and maintenance. If however ignored for too long, the person will abruptly drop dead. I'll let you guess which countries and ethnicities Ringo thinks the virus would wipe out, but yes, the Indians would also not be competition in space for the subsequent books.
3) The Germans and Nordics were very efficient slaves, surrendering easily, no resistance movements, large and prompt tributes.
Ok this feels like tooooo convenient even for me. It is realistic as California and (West?) Texas in the upcoming movie "Civil War" produced by A24.Ringo inexplicably attributes the same to the Russians despite efficiency being the last thing you'd associate with Russia.
Does John Ringo at least writes well compared to the gynocentric publications that I see on Goodreads and other places?The aliens took one look at the most obvious difference between these excellent slaves and all the ones they were killing with (2), and decided to repopulate by making another virus to force blonde woman to reproduce, i.e. greatly increase their sex drive and makes hormonal birth control ineffective. Yes, the later books set up a much younger blonde woman as the MC's love interest, why do you ask?
Yes he does, which is why I read the entire series. Ringo is Kratman, but with some actual skill at writing, and care for the plot beyond taking fictional revenge on his real life enemies and bugbears. The currently last book in the series is a relative disappointment because the ratio of plot to fictional revenge is a bit too tilted*Does John Ringo at least writes well compared to the gynocentric publications that I see on Goodreads and other places?
But yeah if it is like this, unless disproven by someone else, I think I will avoid it. There are probably more sane Baen authors out there.
Well I visited in the 2010s and it was still somewhat "decent" and I felt it was...a generic cosmopolitan metropolis. The marvel of the tall and big ass sky scrapers quickly grew off as I grow older and I rejected the (what I thought) tenents of left social-liberalism progressivism.I wonder...if New York ever ate a nuke. Would people actually care?
We have the inverted scenario with the gynocentric suggested libraries of goodreads. I haven't found a better substitute to that site yet but it is a pain to discover actual talent nowadays....Yeah, I know the term is thrown around a lot by certain types of people, but this does read like an actual Nazi's wet dream.
All the "inferior", "unhygienic" races wiped out? White, blonde Aryans forced to repopulate the world? He even gives himself... sorry, the "main character" a young, blonde love interest to boot.
cough
Wait, is this the one where Maple Syrup is some sort of super luxury good?
Coulda sworn I read something where Maple Syrup was a super liquor the aliens loved, as well as there being a virus that killed/sterilized everyone with dark hair.
Course this was years ago so I could be mixing these up pretty hard.