Live Free or Die

Aliens place a portal in our solar system. It's as if an Interstate Highway suddenly connected to a small village. How can the world survive when our technology is comparatively primitive?

What rot!

A mix of first contact, initial space travel and The Lost Fleet, although not as expansive. Very good pacing and story development. Left me wanting to get Book 2 ASAP.

Short review: This is a fairly standard theme science fiction book. Aliens make contact, world goes into some chaos. Bad aliens try to take over. Brilliant underdog human ends up doing really well, but has to race against time to defeat the bad aliens. That sounds more trite than it really is. But the basic theme really isn't all that original. But it is good writing and I really enjoyed it.

Full review on my blog at http://bookwi.se/live-free-or-die-book-1-of-troy-rising-by-john-ringo/