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Gunpowder & Embers

Last Judgement's Fire #1 / 1
by John Ringo, Kacey Ezell, Christopher L. Smith
Gunpowder & Embers (Last Judgement's Fire #1) by John Ringo, Kacey Ezell, Christopher L. Smith
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In the smoking ruins of our world, will the struggle for yesterday's technology spark tomorrow's global war? A new postapocalyptic novel, in which a young cowboy claims his destiny — and tries to prevent a catastophic war — from New York Times best-selling author John Ringo, Kacey Ezell, and Christopher L. Smith.

Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that.  Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt... to an extent.  Without electricity, human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed.

Chuck Gibson never thought he'd have to leave his family's farm. The simple life of a rancher was enough for him.

A dying stranger proved him wrong. Now, he’s on the road of destiny, accompanied by a mystic warrior monk, a beautiful dragon tamer, a runaway cultist, and a mysterious drunken lecher, all of them searching for the key to reclaiming humanity’s future and past. Each of them carrying a single spark of hope.

But will that hope be enough to light the beacons of freedom once again? Or will they face the next century in bondage to the last century’s technology?

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Release date: January 7, 2020

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John Ringo

John Ringo

John Ringo writes science fiction that assumes the future will not be polite. His stories tend to open at the moment when preparation either pays off or fails spectacularly, and from there he follows soldiers, engineers, parents, and reluctant leaders as they try to keep civilization upright under extreme pressure. Best known for military science fiction that treats logistics and strategy as seriously as firepower, his work attracts readers who want action grounded in hard choices and believable consequences.

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Born in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in 1963, Ringo spent part of his early life moving through different countries before later serving in the U.S. Army, including time with the 82nd Airborne Division. That background shaped how he thinks about conflict and responsibility. When he turned to writing in the late 1990s, those experiences flowed naturally into fiction. His breakout novel, A Hymn Before Battle, introduced readers to a near-future Earth facing alien invasion and set the tone for what would become the Legacy of the Aldenata series, a blend of large-scale warfare, political tension, and sharply drawn human reactions to catastrophe.

Across series such as Black Tide Rising, Troy Rising, and Through the Looking Glass, Ringo consistently explores themes of preparedness, leadership under stress, and the uneasy balance between freedom and survival. His prose is direct and unsentimental, often threaded with dry humor and technical detail that reflects a fascination with engineering, tactics, and real-world constraints. With multiple New York Times bestselling titles and a long list of collaborations with other science fiction and military fiction authors, he has helped define the modern military sci-fi landscape. Readers return to his books not only for the battles and future technology, but for the arguments beneath them, stories that ask what people are willing to build, defend, or sacrifice when the worst finally arrives.

Last Judgement's Fire

Last Judgement's Fire consists of one book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

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