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Originally Posted by Xenophon
The answer was Ghost. Ringo wanted to publish it elsewhere under a pseudonym, but Jim Baen insisted on having a look, and bought it. That seems to have been a wise choice (commercially speaking) as every book in the series has hit the NYT extended best-seller list. Ghost is clearly the weakest book of the batch (and probably Ringo's weakest book, period), with quality of writing improving over the course of the series. That said, Ringo describes these books as "airport novel fantasies" in which he makes no attempt to be accurate, consistent, realistic, or anything else other than telling the story. He once commented (paraphrasing here) that for this particular series "If I need the sun to rise in the South, that's what'll happen."
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"Ghost" and its sequels are, IMHO, deeply disturbing books. I've bought and enjoyed everything that Ringo has published through Baen, but these books, with their xenophobic and highly offensive world view, and explicit sado-masochistic sexual scenes I couldn't recommend to anybody.
I honestly can't imagine what the target audience of these books is. I would have thought that almost any reasonable person would find them extremely offensive.