The Hot Gate (Troy Rising Book 3)

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John Ringo is an exciting and competent action writer, with thoroughly researched plausible science to back up his world. In the second instalment, we learn more acutely of his political and social views, as well as his view of the world we currently live in.

By this third instalment, however, things begin to fall apart. Plot lines are discombobulated - Tyler, who is made out to be a lonely self-made billionaire's love interest, and an issue with a The first book, I found to be surprising good. Plot lines are discombobulated - Tyler, who is made out to be a lonely self-made billionaire's love interest, and an issue with a saboteur, simply fizzles out without real explanation, for example. My biggest annoyance with this one was the take on cultures other than American.

This attitude was first revealed in the second book with the leaders of world Asian and European countries. In The Hot Gate, A Battle station made up of Latin and Muslim crew members which are all painted by Ringo in an offensive deplorable stereotypical fashion - I imagine this being an intolerable read for someone of one of either of these two cultures. Unbelievably insensitive,naive and downright racist. An interesting thing occurred to me while reading this. It seemed so familiar Had I read this before??? Humanity is confronted with alien species, on in particular is downright evil to humanity.

One rather ordinary man, who eventually turns out to be exceptional, heads an uprising, or defence, by quickly, and cleverly, learning to use both man made and alien technology, as well as much science, physics, and most of all, chemistry to save humanity against the foe. He, naturally, achieved world-wide fame, though, there are some who are in opposition, refusing to climb up on the band wagon and judge him and his followers as fraudulent and motivated by self-interests; and a bunch of detailed politics and economic issues are thrown in to pad or thicken the book.

But in the other novel, it's "Good boy Tyler" This is a re-boot of Battlefield Earth for heaven's sake! All said, the series as a whole does have some redeeming qualities.

Oct 01, Nathaniel rated it liked it. I ate it up like candy. Two things to note, however. Scene-by-scene the action made sense, but a lot of the emergencies and dramas that were thrown in had increasingly little to do with the core plot of: That was the central driving concern of the first two books, but by the end of this book it's almost an afterthought. There's a huge, immense battle near the end of the book but it's entirely unclear what the stakes of the battle are and in the end it resolves nothing.

A couple of other major plot threads get raised and then discarded. One protagonist has a romantic encounter with another. He's been set up as a lonely bachelor looking for love, and she's the only one he can really talk to. She's revealed to be secretly in love with him. Then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, the entire question gets dropped and she hooks up with her hold boyfriend. In another event, a protagonist gets charged with murder when a marine dies in her ship. The investigation reveals sabotage, but clears her name because it's another guy who committed the sabotage. Not just on her ship, but on lots of ships.

Including his own ship which then blows up. The saboteur and this is told from his POV then risks his life to save his buddy from the disaster he created without any indication of why he sabotaged his own boat or what he feels about the sabotage or why he decides to save his friend's life. Everyone spends a lot of time speculating about the saboteur's motives, the AI tell the protagonist they know the motive, but are prevented from knowing that they know it's weird because of some AI code and then It's like the book was written by more than one author and they forgot to rectify some fairly major plot decisions.

You don't notice so much when you're reading it at at breakneck piece but--to be honest--even in the moment you're like, "Wait Some parts are surprisingly nuanced and demonstrate something almost approaching multiculturalism all cultures are valid. But then the book settles--with absolute finality--on the hero's culture being the objectively correct cultural approach to space because anything else will get you killed. Still, even if the conclusion was a bit pat, the discussions along the way were quite interesting. It's not often that a die hard conservative takes the time to write carefully about multi-cultural issues, so for that alone it was interesting.

In the end, though, my verdict remains. If you like hard sf or military sf at all and I'm not a huge devotee of either , then you'll really enjoy this book because it's best-in-class. But it is literary candy.

Delicious, light, and ultimately unsubstantial. It's fun, and if that's what you're looking for, read this book. Especially if "figuring out how to make a giant battle station out of an asteroid" or "waging war to defeat evil alien invaders in climactic space battle" fit your notion of fun! View all 3 comments. Oct 17, Jonathan Terrington rated it really liked it Shelves: As the third in the Troy series by John Ringo this was again another fine novel.

His work across this series has been very consistent and while Ringo may not match literary greats he writes to the best of his ability and writes and entertaining and challenging novel here again. The Hot Gate continues with the characters introduced in the second book Citadel and shifts attention from the Troy to a second battle station called Thermopylae. What was fascinating in this one is how Ringo focuses on t As the third in the Troy series by John Ringo this was again another fine novel.

What was fascinating in this one is how Ringo focuses on the aspect of how in his world America has been running all the new space programs and particularly on Troy everything is done to their standards. I loved how he described his character's attempts to get everything into order while entering into the clash of cultures and the idea of 'honour' over 'duty' that some cultures have. His writing allowed me to think about how that we often talk about that we have to have our culture understood without being willing to drop our ground and understand someone else's culture.

We are so selfish like that Either way a great third novel in this series. I don't know whether anymore are on the way but it did not seem like a concluding novel so perhaps there may be a couple of new novels coming in to finish everything. It was pretty good even if it is or is not over. Very much a series recommended for action adventure fans. Apr 29, Per Gunnar rated it liked it Shelves: This one was actually a bit of a disappointment.

I almost gave it a 2 star rating. A good chunk much too much was devoted to nonsense politics and "cultural differences", lazy "Latinos" not being able to do proper maintenance even if their lives depended on it, etc. Luckily those bits where still written in a way that was somewhat interesting to read unlike the extremely boring, never ending, two people dialogs that have become a habit in some of David Weber's latest works. Also, luckily, This one was actually a bit of a disappointment. Also, luckily, the dumbass politicians gets slammed quite badly half way through. The book felt quite short compared to the other ones.

Maybe I just read it a bit faster due to all the political nonsense in it. Sure, it ended up in the usual big badaboom battle at the end which, of course, the humans won. Although here I have another gripe with the book. It tries to portray it as if the humans "lost for the first time". What kind of rubbish is that?

Sure, they took some losses but what the f Now the book was still an okay read but given how much I liked the previous book in the series, this one was definitely a disappointment. Mar 16, Cheryl rated it liked it. I enjoyed the story of Parker's dealings with the South Americans and the cultural clashes. I also very much liked how the AI Granadica had an issue that tied back to the first book's Johannson's virus. What I did not like was the sudden establishment of a friendship between Tyler and Parker. It wasn't organic, who announces they are friends with someone they have only interacted with a few times?

Then, there was a hint of a romantic development.

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I would've had no problem with it, taking the kiss as merely excitement, but the entire scene where Parker talks to Granadica about "what did it mean? Does he like me? Then, there is the last section of the book with a big battle that jumped around and was hard to follow at times. The writing was choppy and it felt like a lot of details were just missing. Then the book just ends with a short paragraph to resolve Parker's story and a short paragraph to resolve Butch's fate. But there is no resolution to the overall story or the war.

Disappointing ending to what was otherwise an interesting trilogy. Jan 26, Blair rated it it was amazing. Why aren't the other nations of the world capable of space travel? It isn't because of money, but because the cruel reality of space doesn't care about human self-perceptions and class structures.

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In the final installment started with "Live Free or Die", Tyler Vernon takes on a challenge almost as difficult as protecting the world from the Horvath or Rangoran fleets: As Tyler spins up a third orbital station, he knows that the defense of the Earth can not continue to be Why aren't the other nations of the world capable of space travel? As Tyler spins up a third orbital station, he knows that the defense of the Earth can not continue to be shouldered by the US alone.

The Latin American countries are clamoring for the attention and prestige of running the next battle station, but so far their forays into even basic maintenance have been a disaster. Add to that another AI on the fritz and peace negotiations which involve more posturing than actual negotiation, it appears only a matter of time before the human race must fend off another threat to their freedom. Can Vernon manage to pull it all together in time to prevent a catastrophe?

Sep 22, Keith Bell rated it really liked it. John Ringo is becoming "The author I would most like to sit down and have a drink with". His characters express views and opinions held by many but not always ezpressed. His novels give him a platform to vent and explore and express views on religion, class, politics etc and yet, continue to tell a good story.

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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I loved it, loved it, the loss of a star is from the simple fact that, it is likely the last book in the series, as John is so busy it'll probably never happen, and it left so many open story threads just hanging open. The ending seemed hurried and incomplete even as an arc format which left a tiny bit of a sour taste in my reader head. The characters are brilliant, fully formed, and extremely consistent, I am very fond of the ability that Mr.

Ringo has for fostering new story lines within the deep veins of other already rich ones, and this is apparent here. I feel it has a quality not unlike "The Mote in God's Eye" with regards to alien interaction. That's enough right there, no spoilers from me. A great read, just left me a little down in the dumps when I found out it was published about three years ago, and, there does not appear to be any upcoming plans for the continuation of this universe. This is the third book in a series. These books are good reads. Like many of the other reviewers have commented, "The Hot Gate" ends with the story at a convenient stopping point, but with lots of loose ends.

If Ringo doesn't write another book in the series to provide a better conclusion, I say we get the pitchforks and rope and schedule a meeting with Mr. I particularly like the battle story at the end where the momentum shifts back and forth as each side reveals more of its capabilities and plans in one of those battles that historians will study for ages because it marks a turning point for the future. That's why I and others are waiting for the sequel to this book, which ends with the battle.

I would like to see where Ringo will take the story of what happens after this battle. The entire series is about how humanity deals with the problem of aliens showing up in our star system with more advanced technology than what humanity has. Earth has to pay tribute to aliens, but has nothing of interest to the aliens to make the payments with a feudalist interstellar society.

The Hot Gate

Earth has to somehow get control of its high orbitals back and maintain control, or it will never be free. The first three books cover how that might happen, with even a little humor thrown in now and then because life is like that. The series examines the impact of stellar economies competing with each other, the role of diplomacy in getting ethnic groups to cooperate with each other human and alien , the efficiency of polical organizations, the impact of capitalism, etc.

It also tries to convey just how big space is and how human thought processes have to adapt to the scale of operations in space. It isn't just a story about warriors oeverloaded on testosterone. Bach book has a different focus. First an American rag-to-riches story. Then overlapping with the perspective of the next generation of Americans, civilian and military.

The Hot Gate (Troy Rising, book 3) by John Ringo

When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and earth's governments have accepted the status quo. To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon.

And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath. Troy Rising is a book in three parts— Live Free or Die being the first part—detailing the freeing of earth from alien conquerors, the first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.

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