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Arguably, the greatest gunfighter name of them all has to be Johnny Ringo. He had a great name but that's about all he had going for him.

By Craig Bannister | May 27, 2021 | 9:49am EDT Daniel Boone faces down a Wampus Cat in "Mountain Folk." “Mountain Folk,” a historical fantasy novel about the Revolutionary War by John Hood, celebrates America’s founding and its iconic heroes by blending real-life characters and events with elements of magic, myth, and mountain folklore. The book, set for release on June 8 of this year, is an epic fantasy in the genre that brought readers “The Hobbit�...

Send Out the Search Party! We Looked for Woke Corporations, and Couldn’t Find Any Apr 27, 2021 Inside the clown car otherwise known as the U.S. Senate, more politicians are blaring the “get woke go broke” mantra at companies daring to speak out on issues such as voter suppression and social justice. First coined by the author John Ringo in 2018, the “woke” catcall has festered from time to time, as supposedly woke corporations like NASCAR made it clear that they heard the clangorous d...

A bit of a mouthful, but I’ve been waiting for WE SHALL RISE to drop for a while. It’s a collection of short stories set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series, and should be a bunch of fun. Do I want to write a story set in it? Maaaaaybe…

In the Email: WE SHALL RISE (E-ARC, Black Tide Rising, Baen). A bit of a mouthful, but I’ve been waiting for WE SHALL RISE to drop for a while. It’s a collection of short stories set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series, and should be a bunch of fun. Do I want to write a story set in it? Maaaaaybe…

(Simon & Schuster/Saga 978-1-9821-4806-5, $27.00, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, March 2, 2021) Science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy. There’s a great deal going on in Machinehood, from Divya’s sophisticated critique of a post-privacy gig economy to her evident expertise in AI systems, ‘‘weak AI’’ digital assistants, nanotech, and prosthetic body modifications. Individually, none of the t...

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