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Originally Posted by HarryT
"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.
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Actually leaving aside the sexual content (Mr. Ringo admitted somewhere - I think at Baen bar - that basically he worked his psychological kinks in the
Paladin of Shadows aka
Kildar aka
Ghost series) the world view is quite mainstream conservative here in the USA and I am not sure any of the main GOP candidates would disagree with it.
And as it happens
Princess of Wands has somewhat similar stuff (though there he kills off famous sf editors and writers including his alter-ego - maybe it was a response to the rec.arts.sf group thread "Why John Ringo is killing sf"
)
War on the Rhine - Waffen SS officers rejuvenated and leading Germany war effort in the 21st century against aliens, succesful and a sequel on its way
And then let us not talk about Tom Kratman independent works - the Legion series (
A Desert Called Peace and
Carnifex featuring the countess of Greenpeace, the duke of Medecins sans Frontier and so on as essentially hereditary ultra-depraved slave masters of future Earth under the aegis of the hereditary UN secretary general) and more recently
Caliphate in which he shows among other things how if a President has popular opinion behind (say after 3-4 nukes exploded in various cities) he can use executive pardon to institute an effective dictatorship by offering pardons to anyone willing to assassinate the opposition in Roman proscriptions style
And also coming up is
The Last Centurion of which several snippets have been posted - SARS mutates and kills off a big percentage of humanity, and here in the US a clearly named woman president messes up big time in dealing with it...