There Will Be Dragons

by John Ringo

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Series: The Council Wars (1)

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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 Ravens 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.… (more)

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Great premise, wanted to like this book. But it was just too long and slow. I don't even remember if I finished it.

It seems like this ought to be a great story, but I just couldn't keep with it. (

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garyrholt | Nov 5, 2020 |

Imagine a sci-fi story that suddenly creates a true fantasy world, with intelligent dragons, unicorns, orcs, elves and no gun powder. That's what happens in There will be dragons.

Now you've got a whole different kind of post apocalyptic story.

I enjoyed this books so much I read the whole series on my Kindle (available from Baen webscriptions for free BTW) in less than a week. (

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rondavis | Apr 18, 2018 |

in the 41st century mankind lives in a utopia. People do whatever they feel like while a computer program called 'mother' makes sure that nobody kills somebody else and that everyone gets all the energy they need. 'Mother' is overseen by a council of humans. It has split into 2 factions. One wants to just keep things the way they are, the other wants to return to the good old days of hard work and character building" with them in charge, of course. A coup happens. In the ensuing fight, earth is deprived of all her energy, and hence her gadgets. So everyone has to go back to pre-coal industrial happenings. One guy rallies a town and prepares for the attack by the other people. The good guys win but the council wars look like it could be generational, so everybody settles down to live a long, pre-industrial life. It was quite interesting. Ringo confuses me though. One minute he is talking about patriotism, importance of a strong military and the dangers of a bloated federal govt, etc, etc and then 2 people are shacking it up like it is totally normal." (

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BookstoogeLT | Dec 10, 2016 |

From the cover and short blurb, I thought this would be a witty mix of fantasy and sci-fi. It isn't. It's mostly a military fantasy with a bit of unlikely tech rationalization in the background to explain the monsters and magic. It wasn't really my thing, but others may like it. (

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DLMorrese | Oct 14, 2016 |

An interesting take on a post apocalyptic world. Generally such stories take place in the present timeline and deal with the aftermath. This story is set far in the future and deals with the origin of the apocalypse, as well as the aftermath. (

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Music09 | Jul 6, 2016 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
John Ringo	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Caldwell, Clyde	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Russo, Carol	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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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.

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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 Ravens 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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