Swindle’s ruler is Idi Amin-level crazy and cruel. They claim Swindle’s ruler is a tyrant.Įven a broken clock is right occasionally, and it turns out this time the Earth Bloc is right. Swindle’s citizens need military-grade hardware to survive, but those weapons are under an Earth Bloc ban. They are going to deliver it to Swindle, a world with a corrosive atmosphere and apex predators that make Tyrannosaurus Rexes look wimpy. Now Rook and Holloway are on a new mission: steal a Citadel, the latest, greatest top-of-the-line mech available. Holloway rescued as Rook just as the rebellion was collapsing. Then the Collectivists enslaved him through illegal brain control – which Earth Bloc did nothing to stop. He piloted an exosuit mech in the Gloss rebellion against the Collectivists. Jason Rook is a member of Holloway’s crew. They provide banned weapons to societies who need them to fight animals on their home planets or to battle crazies with better political connections to Earth Bloc bureaucrats. He and his crew are not in it just for the money. It is hard-edged and involves lots of firearms and fantastic creatures.Ĭaptain Nicholas Holloway owns Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel, an interstellar cargo ship.

“Gun Runner,” by Larry Correia and John Brown is hard science fiction, set in a distant future that has interstellar travel. His Monster Hunter and Hard Magic series involve lots of firearms and fantastic creatures. Larry Correia is best known for hard-edged urban fantasy.

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