WarGate Books has sent out a release announcing the latest in their Forgotten Ruin series of novels. Because of the unique way they phrased things, we’ll just let you read it in their words in its entirety.
Scroll on down and we’ll give you a few excerpts.
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SGT. THOR and MJÖLNIR ROCK THE RUIN
For Immediate Release
Area 51, God Only Knows When
Bring it in, take a knee. WarGate Books is proud to announce Sgt. Thor’s imminent raid on the Ruin, Sua Sponte solo style.
This won’t matter to you if you prefer anemic military science fiction, effete protagonists, lackluster action, or peace. If, however, you appreciate a side of carnage to go with your violence of action, then you’re going to want to read on.
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Who is Sgt. Thor? He’s what would happen if Conan completed Ranger School, got tabbed and scrolled, and carried a .50 AMR named Mjölnir on his adventures. He’s the guy who changed his name and his religious affiliation so he could grow a beard, then went full Viking. You know, the former surfer with the Glock 17, matched tomahawks, and Thor Score: The Regimental high score for stacking monstrous bodies.
What is the Ruin? It’s an ancient, murderous future. It’s four hundred generations from now, the wreck of a world Ruined by a nano-plague. It’s a place stalked by hideous creatures and haunted by fiends. It’s the place a company of Rangers with attachments and augments find themselves going shock and awesome on a series of HVTs straight out of a Tolkien novel or D&D campaign.
What about WarGate Books? They’re this world’s source for the acclaimed Galaxy’s Edge, The Lost, Warlord¸ Splashdown, and of course Forgotten Ruin series of novels. They have entirely reimagined military science fiction.
Excerpt from the Forgotten Ruin series…
Sergeant Thor looked around. When he was satisfied no one was listening to us, he leaned in close.
“Back there… y’know, before Fifty-One and the Gate… I only did it, became a pagan, so they’d let me grow a beard. Was just somethin’ to do. A laugh that, if I played it straight, they’d let me get away with, right? So I looked up all kinds of Viking crap and made them think it was my thing. Even changed my name last name to Odinson. And they had to let me. Listen, chicks dig the beard, Talker. No way am I gonna pass up the trifecta of being a Ranger, a sniper, and having what all would agree is the most epic operator beard ever. No way. So, I converted. Makes sense, right, man?”
I agreed it did make a certain kind of sense.
“Except… this place…”
And Sergeant Thor Odinson looked up from his work on the rifle he’d carry out into the dark to kill things with. He stared out across the darkening gloom of the forest below and the late afternoon shadows we’d be going out into.
“This place is… me. I don’t know… how. But…” He inhaled deeply and shook his head. There was a pleasant, satisfied smile on his face like he didn’t need to fully articulate how he felt. It was good enough for him that he knew it. Like it was something new and unexpected, but familiar all the same.
He put the rifle down on his poncho and picked up the two tomahawks he’d used in his ceremony.
“This place is something older than anything we’ve ever known. I know it’s supposed to be the future, Talker, but it’s like a lost age of legends and myths and… and heroes. Know what I mean?”
When the blue-eyed killer with two tomahawks in his hands and dozens of notches indicating kills on the anti-materiel rifle he called Mjölnir… when he asks if you know what he means… The answer is, “Yes. Yes, I do.”
You’re the new guy, you remind yourself. What’d the command sergeant major say? Try not to get in anyone’s way, son.
I’m trying.
Anspach, Jason; Cole, Nick. Forgotten Ruin (Forgotten Ruin series book 1)
Rangers gonna Ranger, whether they’re killing bad guys in dirty manjams or orcs in rusted armor.
“The Ranger tab is just a leadership school. The scroll is a way of life.” Sgt. Thor
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