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PARADISE LOST!

In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.

But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion.

But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was . . .

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Praise for the science fiction of John Ringo:

"Explosive. . . . Fans of strong military science fiction will appreciate Ringo's lively narrative and flavorful characters. . . . One of the best new practitioners of military science fiction."
—Publishers Weekly

". . . since his imagination, clearly influenced by Kipling and rock and roll, is fertile, and his storytelling skill sound, [When the Devil Dances] is irresistible."
—Booklist

". . . fast-paced military science fiction peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse."
—Library Journal

"MARVELOUS!"
—David Weber, author of In Fury Born

"If Tom Clancy were writing science fiction, it would read much like John Ringo . . . good reading with solid characterizations—a rare combination."
—Philadelphia Weekly Press

"Ringo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military science fiction subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling."
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Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2003 by John Ringo.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

Originally published by Baen Books.

"March of Cambreadth" and "The Frog of Cambreadth" used with permission. Copyright Heather Alexander.

Cover art by Clyde Caldwell.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

To Bast, Kane, Doug, Reck, Hank, Glennis, Peppermint Patty, Deann and all the other persons, knowing and unknowing, who make my life easier by being true characters in every sense of the word.
In the forest, a sparrow died.
The passing of the sparrow was registered and noted. The ...

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Copyright

Copyright 2003 by John Ringo.

All Rights Reserved.

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