Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation

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New stories set in Tom Kratman's hard-hitting Carrera military sf series

THE BLOODY PATH TO LIBERTY

Send us your tired, your poor, says the inscription at the base of the great statue, your huddled masses yearning to be free.

But the future of the first ever colony planet, Terra Nova, and its relations with Old Earth is far more a case of boot out your tired, your poor, your dissidents and troublemakers. Use us for a dumping ground for all your problems. Go ahead and abandon these here. This might have been fine, too, but for the UN and its corrupt bureaucracy insisting on maintaining control and milking the new world and its settlers, willing and unwilling both, bone dry.

Contained herein are tales of the history of mankinds future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation. As with most of human history, this history is messy, with good men and women turning bad, bad men and women inadvertently doing good, and blood flowing in the streets.

About Tom Kratmans Carrera series:

[I]nterplanetary warfare with. . .[a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice . . . fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Weber should enjoy this SF action adventure.Library Journal

Kratman's dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists [Kratman is] a professional military man up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits. Best-selling author ofAmerica AloneMark Steyn on Tom Kratmans uncompromising military SF thriller,Caliphate

Kratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terrorrealistic action sequences, strong characterizations and thoughts on the philosophy of war. Publishers Weekly

Carerra Series:
A Desert Called Peace
Carnifex
The Lotus Eaters
The Amazon Legion
Come and Take Them
The Rods and the Axe
A Pillar of Fire by Night

Author Bio

In 1974, at age seventeen,Tom Kratmanbecame a political refugee and defector from the PRM (Peoples Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to doat one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal withotherlawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this foryears. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen. His novels for Baen includeA State of Disobedience, Caliphate, and the series consisting ofA Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them,The Rods and the Axe, andA Pillar of Fire by Night. With John Ringo, he has written the novels Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, andThe Tuloriad.Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.