Vorpal Blade

cover of Vorpal BladeVorpal Blade (Looking Glass)

author: John Ringo
Travis Taylor
asin: 1416521291
binding: Hardcover
list price: $25.00 USD
amazon price: $16.50 USD


(with John Ringo)
The sequel to Into the Looking Glass. William Weaver, PhD. and SEAL Chief Adams are back and Bill got himself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly garage mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship ready to go "out there." But as everyone knows, the people who really are going to bear the brunt are the poor Security guys, Force Recon Marines who are kept in the dark and fed manure all day. That is until they land on an alien planet, get partially wiped out and then load back up again. Ranging in topics from the best gun to kill armored space monsters to particle physics to cosmology to health and beauty tips, Vorpal Blade is a return to the "good old days" of SF when the science problems were intractable and the beasts were ugly. The monkeys are out in the space lanes and ready to rock. As soon as they get another roll of duct tape.

Duct Tape

Duct Tape. Now come on everyone on the Boats knows that if anything needs to be fixed all it takes in EB Green (A type of Duct Tape, developed by Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics) and Dev Con. I know they use it to fix Airplanes and probably Tanks also.

Looking forward to reading the book

I once saw gun-tape used to

I once saw gun-tape used to fix a Hercules wing. Admittedly it was just used to smooth out the patch they put on but it still looked like the wing was being held on with duct tape.

Vorpal Blade

I love the cover art!!
The book is due out in September? I was wondering if it will be available through Baen.com/webscriptions as an advanced reader copy?