It&s Not Over Til The Skinny Lady Sings Working off of a piece of intelligence from the alien Hexosehr the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient & powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the “black box” that drives humanity&s only space ship Any remnant technology would be nice but what the Blade finds is much more than they bargained for Worse the ship is infested by an alien species of scorpion-like arachnoids that has the potential to wipe out a world Worst of all instead of being Astrogator Captain William Weaver is now the XO & he is not getting along with the new commander & the new commander does not get along with Weaver the ship&s female savant-linguist or most of the rest of the original crew & what is that weird noise the ship makes every time it&s in hard maneuvers? Leave it to the oddball geniuses of the Blade to sort it all out & the Dreen are not going to like the answers Meet the Author John Ringo is author of the New York Times best-selling Posleen War series which so far
Includes:: A Hymn Before Battle Gust Front When the Devil Dances & Hell’s Faire as well as the connected novels Cally’s War (with Julie Cochrane) The Hero (with Michael Z Williamson) & Watch on the Rhine (with Tom Kratman) & is the hottest new science fiction writer since David Weber A veteran of the 82nd Airborne Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his novels of high-tech future war Travis S Taylor—“ Doc” Taylor to his friends—has earned his soubriquet the hard way He has a doctorate in optical science & engineering a master&s degree in physics a master&s degree in aerospace engineering a master&s degree in astronomy & a bachelor&s degree in electrical engineering Dr Taylor has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense & NASA for the past sixteen years He&s currently working on several advanced propulsion concepts very large space telescopes space-based beamed energy systems & next generation space launch concepts He lives in Harvest AL with his wife Karen & their daughter