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Claws That Catch
by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor

The Galaxy at Risk!

Humans have come a long ways since the looking glass gates first appeared and an alien menace turned a motley crew of scientists, sailors and force recon Marines into battle-hardened space adventurers. Now with other species running scared, it’s up to humans to take the lead and mold a weapon capable of checking the Dreen—a galactic cancer that has so far proved unstoppable. Their arsenal A hodge-podge of powerful technologies begged, borrowed and/or looted from across the galaxy and cobbled together on what has to be the strangest ship ever to ply the starways: the good ship Vorpal Blade II!

Great Ideas! Cool Space Ships! Evil Alien Butt Blasted to Smithereens!
"If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo."
—Philadelphia Weekly Press.

“[T]his thoroughly enjoyable ride should appeal to techno-thriller fans as well as to military SF buffs.�
—Publishers Weekly on John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor’s Into the Looking Glass.

Published 11/1/2008
SKU: 1416555870
Ebook Price: $6.00 

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1. Rodney on 6/3/2010, said:

This is a great series but this story went a little wierd. Still worth the read but the others were better.
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2. Chris on 4/14/2010, said:

The series is starting to diverge from its Military SciFi routes and going weird with the Anime zone and guitair angst :-( I have always paid extra for the EARC however another marginal like this one and I will drop back to buying normal copies. Get back to your roots guys!
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3. Yury on 8/20/2009, said:

OK with strong "minus minus". Leaves the impression of hasty, cut-down, if not somewhat unfinished work. E.g., how come Marines are able to shoot anything with *projectiles* in the inertia-less environment (chapter 20)? Also, Russian characters throughout the series are stereotypical, even cartoonish. I'm pressed to choose who's the "winner" here, either the mega-stupid sub captain in #2 or the general in #4. BTW, I believe I didn't yet see *one* realistically sounding Russian name in the conmplete series. And this is a 2008 work, right?
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4. Michael on 1/11/2009, said:

I've enjoyed the series so far but this one just seemed to be over too soon. Maybe because I was so excited to read the next installment I sped through it.
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5. Mark on 1/6/2009, said:

Taylor and Ringo have delivered a great series. Awesome action with intelligent humor intertwined.
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6. Richard on 1/4/2009, said:

This latest installment starts out very good. However, the anime zone???? I just don't know what to say about that part. It really stopped me in my tracks. Still a good book that progresses the story along, but gets just a little to silly for my tastes.
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7. Thomas on 10/18/2008, said:

Read it, love it! Great space combat, great "ground" combat. Interesting take on biological weapons (Tribbles as bioweapons). Keep it up guys!
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8. Nikko on 10/13/2008, said:

damn, it gets better and better :-)
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9. Jason on 10/2/2008, said:

Entertaining as always. The level of humor is pretty standard for this pair. The anime zone was amusing, though I have a problem believing that anime would be enough of a trope in a crew consisting of Navy and Marines that it would generate the results it did...
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10. Ronald on 7/7/2008, said:

As noted these ratings are based on the first few chapters that have been snippeted. Having said that, the authors lose no time in getting things roaring along. this is great for those that already have read the previous books, but may be a problem if you have not. The frequency of the use of alien words seems to have been cut way back, leaving in my opinion a better mix that leaves the flavor, without becoming annoying. The story seems to be developing nicely with the ship finaly coming in out of the black, which causes problems of its own. Add in a few new NCO's and a CO that are REGULAR navy and dont understand (or seem to particularly like) aliens and space in general and know how things are SUPPOSED to run in the navy (wet not space) and you can see a lot of headaches heading the way of the old hands of the Vorpal Blade. Like What happened to all of those nonstandard alien spare parts. Oh and having a bored miss moon (civilians dont interfere in the regular navy, get her out of my shop) can only be trouble. (update, I bought the ARC and loved the rest of the book, the reason I leave it at 4 stars (they won't let me give 4 and 1/2) is that the story has now become a series in tone as well as in fact. Before each book could easily stand alone, but now it helps to have read the earlier books, and many things are left hanging at the end of the book for whatever comes next. still loved the book and titanus is great.)
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