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This is a fun and fast-paced military sci-fi book, the first of a series of books. It isn't great literature, but it is very good at what it does and for the genre. It is like a good popcorn March Upcountry This was an odd book. On one hand, it had a lot of action, March Upcountry was good, and it had some interesting characters whom you could come to enjoy seeing in a series, of which this is the first book. March Upcountry. David WeberJohn Ringo. He was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man Why wouldn't even his own mother, the Empress, explain why they didn't trust him? Or why the very mention of his March Upcountry name was forbidden at Court? Or why his mother had decided to pack him off to a backwater planet aboard what was little March Upcountry than a tramp freighter to represent March Upcountry at a local political event better suited March Upcountry a third assistant undersecretarv of state? It probably wasn't too surprising that someone in his position should react by becoming spoiled, selfcentered and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life? But that was before a saboteur tried to blow up his transport. Then warships of the Empire of Man's worst rivals shot the crippled vessel out of space. Then Roger found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, whose jungles were full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, torrential rain, and barbarian hordes with really bad dispositions. Now all March Upcountry has to do is hike halfway around the entire planet, then capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, somehow commandeer a starship, and then go home to Mother for explanations. If anyone can get him off Marduk alive, it's the Bronze Barbarians. Assuming that Prince Roger manages to grow up before he gets all of them killed. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies in print. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. His techno-thriller The Last Centurion was also a national bestseller. There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series: The Herowritten with Michael Z. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, March Upcountry brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction. March Upcountry (Empire of Man / Prince Roger Series, #1) by David Weber, John Ringo - Risingshadow

It tells the story of Prince Roger MacClintock and his bodyguards of the Empress' March Upcountry Regiment who get marooned on the alien planet of Marduk due to an act of sabotage on their March Upcountry and must fight their way towards the local space port held by enemies of the Terran Empire in order to get back home to Earth. The book appeared on the New York Times best seller list. Prince Roger is ordered March Upcountry his mother and older half-brother to attend a ceremony in Leviathan. During the trip, a sentry is discovered shot dead on the ship, and Sergeant-Major Eva Kosutic then discovers charges in the main plasma conduits. Kosutic catches the ship's logistics officer, Ensign Guha, and shoots her just before the charges are detonated. As a result, the ship is forced to land in the nearest star system, Marduk. Prince Roger and his body guards escape in shuttles March Upcountry to land on the planet and capture the space port. The shuttles eventually land further from the port than planned and Bravo Company sets out on their long journey. The company reach a jungle and D'Nall Cord, a shaman of the X'Intai people, suddenly appears from the March Upcountry. He decides to introduce them to his tribe. While March Upcountry the village, Cord and Delkra the tribal chief consult with Roger, Pahner and March Upcountry on a serious problem facing the tribe from the city-state of Q'Nkok. The city March Upcountry the X'Intai have a treaty whereby the city dwellers are permitted to cut only certain trees in a specific area of the tribe's territory. In recent months the woodcutters have been March Upcountry deeper into the jungle than permitted. To attack the woodcutters would create war. The tribe March Upcountry launch a surprise attack on Q'Nkok and feast on their food stores, March Upcountry Pahner requests that they delay attacking Q'Nkok until after the company has gone there. The company proceeds to Q'Nkok. They are brought before the King Xiya Kan and state their need for supplies in exchange for hi-tech tools. The company arrange to eavesdrop on the king's council and hear him attack them for their continued misconduct. The company bugs all the great houses to March Upcountry who is involved and the marines discover that three of the great houses are conspiring to topple the king. The marines and the king's guards assault the Great Houses' homes and afterwards the company and the marines set forth into Kranolta territory. As Kranolta hunters ambush the company repeatedly, Sergeant Cobedra March Upcountry killed. Meanwhile, the Kranolta assemble all of their tribes and decide to attack the human invaders. They strike and the company March Upcountry forced to try to get to the walls of the city. The next day, the Kranolta approach the Citadel. Suddenly, a new force emerges from the jungle which assault the Kranolta's remaining forces. The reduced company depart from Voitan and continue to march until they reach Marshad. They arrive at the king's palace. Later, Lt. Kheder tells the humans that King Radj will have to send his entire army to destroy them. March Upcountry says that there are factions in Marshad in league with Pasule. All the marines need to do is to attack the army. On the morning of the battle, the marines March Upcountry off to the battle field. The plasma cannon is hauled to the top of a hill and the bridge explodes and March Upcountry. Three days after the battle, Roger meets with Kheder Bijan, who is the new king of Marshad and inquires as to the delay in giving them the supplies and shields that were promised. However, after getting in a conflict with Kheder, Roger shoots him. T'Leen establishes a more rational regime, redistributing the land and dedicating more of it to food production. Roger then mounts the March Upcountry Patty and gives to order to continue the march towards the mountains. Like most Mardukan cities and villages it is located on a hill top to avoid flash floods. The city is ruled by King Xiya Kan and a council composed of the heads of all the great houses. While king is charged with protecting March Upcountry city and ruling it the council is rife with intrigue and political backstabbing and a serious thorn in the king's side. Voitan - Once the shining commercial and industrial center of the Hurtan region, known for its superior metal works and Damascene Steel, the city of Voitan found itself overwhelmed by the barbarian tribes of the Kranolta who had sacked the city and the surrounding city-states and occupied the region. However, the sacking of the city-states was not as complete as the Kranolta had thought as many of the cities artisans and workers along with their wealth had fled the city and established themselves elsewhere preparing for the day that they might retake the March Upcountry. As a youth, D'Nal Cord was sent to study in Voitan. Marshad - Radj Kordan, who had been king during the fall of Voitan, had found himself facing a rebellion among the great houses. After March Upcountry victorious, he planned to strip them of their guards, fine them heavily and reduce their power, but was assassinated before he could do this. In retaliation, his son killed every member of the rebellious houses and absorbed his single remaining ally, thus leaving the House of Radj the only power in the city. Since then the city has fallen into ruin with crushing poverty March Upcountry except in the king's palace with all of the city's revenues from the lucrative trading dianda a flax-like silk which is planted everywhere around the March Upcountry at the expense of food going towards defense retaining many mercenaries and lining the pockets of the king and his advisors while the peasants starve. The city's closest neighbor is the city-state March Upcountry which lives in constant fear of Marshad and its king. The Empire of Man - Also called the Terran Empire, it is one of the major interstellar March Upcountry in the area of the galaxy explored by humans. Ruled by a monarchy house MacClintock and a parliament consisting of an elected senate and a house March Upcountry lords, the empire encompasses March Upcountry great many worlds with varying degrees of technological development. Recent political problems, beginning with the reign of Emperor Andrew Roger's grandfatherhave March Upcountry a great deal of March Upcountry, unrest and inequality, particularly between the core worlds and the outer planets. The result is a brewing crisis that the Empress has been desperately attempting to March Upcountry and which is the cause of the attack on Roger that strands him and his marines on Marduk. Following the ascent of Pierpaelo Cavaza - a devotee of the Church of Ryback an organization dedicated to removing "humanocentric" damage from the universe - to the throne shortly after the Dagger Years, the empire embraced the tenets of the church into law. The move had triggered a short civil war that Cavaza had won proving that he was just as ruthless as his ancestors. Now the empire is led by his followers, religious eco-freaks who seek to impose their belief on how nature should be handled. As part of this belief system, the Saints "reclaim" certain worlds by forcing humans to remove all human influence and pollution including their own waste - which is why they basically starve the people sent to reclaim these worlds to death. Raiden-Winterhowe - A revanchist empire that was once invaded and forced to defend itself and now continues to expand because it simply can't stop. The Alphane Alliance March Upcountry An alliance consisting of 12 worlds and populated by humans, Althari and Phaenurs. The Althari are a female-dominated, stoic warrior race that resemble 3 meter tall koala bears while the Phaenurs are a four-legged, lizard-like race of March Upcountry telepaths among themselves and empaths. The Althari, being descended from ground burrowing creatures prefer underground dwellings with clear fields of fire, making them more like March Upcountry bunkers than homes. In Althari society, males are definitely second-class citizens, untrusted by the females, many March Upcountry whom consider them as being useful only for breeding and housework. Defined by O'Casey as "very shrewd bargainers" since they can't be lied to the Phaenurs being able to sense deception. The March Upcountry is on friendly terms with the March Upcountry of Man. Tutorial Implants "Toots" - An implanted computer processor that interfaces completely with human neural systems without adverse side effects. Used primarily for data processing, storage and training, the toot March Upcountry a persons learning capability, including the use of assassination programs for better marksmanship or translating alien languages. The device can, in fact, take over for the March Upcountry and allow him to perform tasks more efficiently. However, it is a security planner's nightmare, as the toot can be hacked and the person forced to do a task against their will as if they'd been possessed by a demon. People whose toots have been hacked are March Upcountry "toot zombies" or "toombies". ChromSten - The hardest substance known to modern science, March Upcountry form of collapsed matter, used both in ship's armor and in personal body armor. Only a plasma rifle or something stronger can penetrate ChromSten. Tunnel Drive - The faster-than-light method of transport used for interstellar travel. March Upcountry equipped with March Upcountry drives tend to be huge, as the drive takes up a lot of volume. Every star system, depending on the size of its primary star, has a limit within which entry into tunnel space is impossible known as the Tsukayama Limit. Travel between star systems takes days and sometimes weeks. Bead Rifles and Cannons - Projectile weapons that fire five-millimeter steel- coated, glass- or tungsten-cored beads "accelerated to phenomenal speeds" via electromagnetic lining in the weapon's barrel. Plasma Rifles and Cannons - The main field energy weapon, capable of taking out powered armor. The plasma March Upcountry utilize a magazine containing lithium-deuteride pellets and a power source to feed the laser compressors that initiate the fusion reaction that drives the weapon. Chameleon Suits - The standard issue marine uniform that allows the wearer to fade into the background. The suits also offer limited ballistic protection and can be configured for work in vacuum environments. Powered Armor - ChromSten made armor that offers even better ballistic protection and camouflage capabilities that chameleon suits and are susceptible to damage only from heavy energy weapons such as plasma March Upcountry and cannons or the last-ditch, contact-range weapon called a "one-shot", which delivers a shock wave through the armor March Upcountry the plasteel matrix supporting it, causing a scab to break free and ricochette inside the armor, killing the person inside. Nanotechnology - Widely used throughout the story and in many ways. Prince Roger, his staff, the marines and the navy personnel attached all have nannites floating around in their blood stream whose function is to enhance the person's regenerative capabilities even a lost limb, though this takes a metabolic toll on the bodyprocess alien nutrients into something human anatomy can use, increase the body's endurance and protect against disease and foreign toxins. The marines also have nanotech recording devices used in an intelligence gathering function. These devices are the size of a small insect and March Upcountry move like one so as to look innocuous. From Wikipedia, the March Upcountry encyclopedia. Science fiction novel by David Weber. This article is about the science-fiction novel. Dewey March Upcountry. Archived from the original on 10 July Retrieved 18 August Categories : American novels science fiction novels American science fiction novels Baen Books available as e-books Novels by David Weber. 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An established master of military SF, Weber, and a fast-rising comer in the genre, Ringo, combine forces in the first of a new series sure to please their fans. Thanks to terrorist sabotage, he and a company of March Upcountry marines are marooned in the wilderness of the planet Marduk, noted for high mountains, high temperatures, low technology and the short tempers of its nine-foot, four-armed, slime-covered natives. They have to get out of this place. In their effort to do so, they win allies among the Mardukans mostly in legitimate ways and overcome others by judiciously combining sneakiness and firepower. Along the way, the prince turns from a spoiled brat into a useful, even valuable member of the company. This coming-of-age theme often crops up in military SF, and indeed both authors are working within territory they know well. The pace never gets too slow, despite generous world-building and extended action scenes. Another strength is the deceptively deep characterization—particularly of Prince Roger, whose transformation draws on skills and character traits carefully planted early in the novel. March Upcountry book could actually use more background the villainous terrorist Saints are shadow figures and ends on a cliff-hanger or cliff- climberbut overall the superb March Upcountry will add considerably to the reputation of both authors. March Upcountry more be said? Ringo's most recent novel is Gust Frontreviewed in March Upcountry, Mar. View Full Version of PW. More By and About This Author. Buy this book. Show other formats. Discover what to read March Upcountry. PW Picks: Books of the March Upcountry. The Big Indie Books of Fall Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Now. Children's Announcements.