The Morristown architect, who died this month from cancer at age 58, was sent home by family, friends and colleagues who sang his praises, and his favorite songs, in a loving celebration. That closing line, from a poem recited by members of the Motown Run Club, summed up Friday’s memorial for Andrew Passacantando at the Mayo Performing Arts Center. Also if you are looking for book not in the free library, the Fifth Imperium ( my blog post about Baen and Fifth Imperium site) has a ton of the rest of the books in the series for free.Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. So if you have a reader, they have a format that will work. *The First books of Empire from Ashes, March to the Sea and a ton of other books are free at the Baen free library. It is good enough that I have picked up and started the second book. But it is a pretty good story line and when it doesn’t get too wound up in details can be pretty good writing. But with military focused science fiction (what Baen primarily, but not completely focuses on) the ideas are a smaller part of the book and often are fairly overt libertarian political commentary. I have always said that the best part of science fiction is the ability to play with ideas. The news media is always on the wrong side of things, but our hero starts making plans to defend earth, while making a ton of money. And bad politicians that want to tax everything away or concede everything to the bad aliens. There are, of course, bad aliens that want to take away all the good stuff. They find something that the aliens want badly and he is suddenly the richest guy in the world. The aliens like his comics and agree to run through potential trade good. A super intellegent rugged individualist that happens to have been a science fiction comic book author meets an alien at a comic book conference. The Earth enters a depression because they don’t have anything to trade. There are some similarities to the Empire from Ashes series by David Weber (who coauthored the March to the Sea series with John Ringo).*īasic set up is that in a time period just barely in the future, a gate to another world shows up. This is the fourth series where he was the author or co-author and I think I have read every book in the previous three series. Purchase Links: Hardcover, Audiobook, Multi format DRM free ebook But apart from the political ‘speechifying’ it is a good story.

Takeaway: It seems most modern science fiction authors have become small government conservatives.

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