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Freehold: Resistance Paperback – December 3, 2019
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RESISTANCE IS BRUTAL!
When the UN invaded the Freehold of Grainne, the intent was simple: force a noncompliant star nation back into the collective. What the politicians hadn’t accounted for was that the Freehold had spent 200 years as the haven for every independent, rebellious, self-reliant adventurer in human space.
Its military are scattered remnants, its bases smoking ruins, its cities occupied. But Grainne and its space habitats have resources beyond measure. Retired intelligence agents, disabled veterans, animal handlers, petty smugglers, half-lame computer specialists, research scientists, planetary engineers—all have one goal in mind: make the invaders suffer for their presumption. That’s the Freehold way.
RESIST. ADAPT. EMERGE VICTORIOUS.
A collection of hard-hitting tales gathered by series creator Michael Z. Williamson.
A novel in story form by amazing, best-selling authors!
Stories by Larry Correia, Michael Z. Williamson, Brad R. Torgersen,
Mike Massa, Kacey Ezell, Robert E. Hampson, John F. Holmes, Jason Cordova, Christopher L. Smith, and more.
Praise for Forged in Blood:
“The anthology celebrates soldiers and their tools. . . . Most of all, it celebrates warriors and the stuff that makes them so—the mettle more than the metal.”—Tangent
"Fans of combat science fiction will find this collection irresistible…an entertaining and engaging book."—The Daily News of Galveston County
About Michael Z. Williamson:
“A fast-paced, compulsive read . . . will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber.”—Kliatt
“Williamson's military expertise is impressive.”—SF Reviews
Novels of Michael Z. Williamson's Freehold Universe:
Freehold series
Freehold
The Weapon
The Rogue
Contact with Chaos
Angeleyes
Freehold: Forged in Blood
Ripple Creek series
Better to Beg Forgiveness . . .
Do Unto Others . . .
When Diplomacy Fails . . .
Standalone
A Long Time Until Now
- Print length512 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBaen
- Publication dateDecember 3, 2019
- Dimensions6.13 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-101982124237
- ISBN-13978-1982124236
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- Publisher : Baen
- Publication date : December 3, 2019
- Edition : Reprint
- Language : English
- Print length : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1982124237
- ISBN-13 : 978-1982124236
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
- Book 7 of 8 : Freehold
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,315,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,973 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
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Michael Z. Williamson is retired military, having served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. He was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Desert Fox. Williamson is a state-ranked competitive shooter in combat rifle and combat pistol. He has consulted on military matters, weapons and disaster preparedness for Discovery Channel and Outdoor Channel productions and is Editor-at-Large for Survivalblog, with 300K weekly readers. In addition to these activities, Williamson tests and reviews firearms and gear for manufacturers. Williamson’s books set in his Freehold Universe include Freehold, Better to Beg Forgiveness, and Do Unto Others. His novel The Hero – written in collaboration with New York Times best-selling author John Ringo–has reached modern classic status. Williamson was born in England, raised in Liverpool and Toronto, Canada, and now resides in Indianapolis with his wife and children.

Larry Correia is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels. He’s best known for his Monster Hunter International urban fantasy series, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior epic fantasy series, the Grimnoir Chronicles alternate history trilogy, the Dead Six military thrillers, and the sci-fi Gun Runner. He’s also written over sixty pieces of shorter fiction, many of which are included in his Target Rich Environment collections, and he has edited three anthologies.. He lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah with his wife, children, and fearsome Krasnovian Waffle Hound.
You can follow him at monsterhunternation.com.

A 2019 Dragon Award finalist and 2015 John W. Campbell Award finalist, Jason Córdova has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world. The author of the Kin Wars Universe and over 40 novels and short stories published, he is a US Navy veteran, a former teacher, and avid videogamer. He currently resides in North Carolina.

Join me and other Cannon authors at The Command Post!
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J.F. Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncommissioned Officer, having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard. During that time, he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff, with tours in Cuba and Iraq, as well as responding to the terrorists attacks in NYC on 9-11.
From 2010 to 2014 he wrote the immensely popular military cartoon strip, "Power Point Ranger", poking fun at military life in the tradition of Beetle Bailey and Willy & Joe.
His books range from Military Sci-Fi to Space Opera to Detective to Fantasy, with a lot in between, and in 2017 two are finalists for the prestigious Dragon Awards.
In 2018, he launched Cannon Publishing, www.cannonpublishing.us specializing in military science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, with an emphasis on works from up and coming authors.
Feel free to join The Command Post on Facebook and get a chance to influence the course and plot of his next book!

The 2019 DragonCon Dragon Award winner for Best Science Fiction novel (title: A STAR-WHEELED SKY) Brad R. Torgersen's award-winning stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A veteran and Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army Reserve, Brad has also served in half a dozen different countries. Married for 25 years to his very first audio narrator, Brad lives with his family in the Intermountain West. He can be found most often at his Facebook page, and occasionally writes non-fiction for both his personal blog, and the Mad Genius Club group blog. A political Classical Liberal, Brad believes in having an open mind—so long as you don't let your brains fall out.

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Chris moved 'home' as soon as he could.
Attending Texas A+M for two of the four years he lived in College Station, he learned quickly that there was more to college than drinking beer and going to football games.
Deciding that a change of venue may be more beneficial, he moved to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit.
While there, he also met a wonderful lady that somehow found him to be funny, charming, and worth marrying. (She has since changed her mind on the funny and charming, but figures he's still a keeper.)
After the birth of his first child, and while waiting on the second, Chris decided that he should start his own business, and has been running it since 2001.
In a fit of creative inspiration, Chris began writing flash fiction in 2012, moved on to short stories, and should be finishing his first solo novel any day now. His first story, 'Bad Blood and Old Silver,' appears in the 'Luna's Children:Stranger Worlds' anthology, from Dark Oak Press. Other stories to be released: 'What manner of Fool,' featured in Michael Hanson's 'Sha'daa: Inked' anthology; 'Isaac Crane and the Ancient Hunger' in Fantom Enterprise's 'Dark Corners' anthology; and '150 Miles to Huntsville' in Baen's Black Tide Rising anthology. He has also co-authored (with Jason Cordova) 'Kraken Mare' from Severed Press.
His two cats allow him, his wife, their three kids, and two dogs to reside outside of San Antonio.

I'm a biology major, an IT geek with a MS in Information Security & Assurance, SF/F fan, personal finance nerd turned entrepreneur, nutrition / health geek, and mother to two devoted Disciples of Chaos (kids) along with four Minions of Chaos (cats). My husband is a science fiction author, mostly published with Baen Books, and several of my acquaintances are long time SF/F fans, authors, and/or artists.
My first short stories and poems published for general view were posted to VideoTel, when I was 8. That was longer ago than I care to think about. However, the voices in my head still insist I write, although I don't produce much poetry these days. My original fiction is typically fantasy with a side order of science fiction. However, I also enjoy dabbling in what-ifs for classic novels, such as Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.

Marisa Wolf was born in New England, and raised on Boston sports teams, Star Wars, Star Trek, and the longest books in the library (usually fantasy). Over the years she majored in English in part to get credits for reading (this...only partly worked), taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and finally decided to finish all those half-started stories in her head.
She’s currently based in Texas, but has moved into an RV with her husband and their two ridiculous rescue dogs, and it's anyone's guess where in the country she is at any given moment. Learn more at www.marisawolf.net

Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life including stints as a university researcher, a tech entrepreneur, an investment banker and a U.S. Navy officer (1130). In addition to the usual military deployments, he has lived outside the US for several years as a civilian, mostly in South America and Europe, with a few intervals in Asia. Mike is married and enjoys the challenges of three sons and a growing cohort of grandsons all of whom check daily to see if today is the day they can pull down the old lion. Not yet...

Hey, I'm Jamie. Thanks for checking out my page.
I'm Canadian, born and raised in Ontario, spent some time in the CF reserves, and went on a peacekeeping mission when I finished highschool. Moved to the left coast to work in law enforcement, and retired in early 2021. Now I live in the Maritimes, and write full time. I'm married to the lovely Michelle, and we have cats.
Cheers
J

Justin grew up an Army brat, living in Germany, Alabama, Texas, Korea, Colorado and Alaska, and fed on a steady diet of X-Men, Star Trek, Robert Heinlein, DragonLance, and Babylon 5. While attending West Point, he met his future wife, Michele, on an airplane, and soon began writing in earnest with her encouragement. In 2005 he graduated from West Point and served as a field artillery officer, completing combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and earning the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and the Combat Action Badge.
Medically retired from the Army in 2015, Justin settled in Houston with Michele, their four children and an excessively friendly Old English Sheepdog.

Philip Wohlrab has spent time in the United State Coast Guard and has served for more than 18 years in the Virginia Army National Guard. Serving as a medic attached to an infantry company, he earned the title “Doc” the hard way while serving across two tours in Iraq. He came home and continued his education, earning a Master of Public Health degree in 2016. He has written short stories in Mil-SF, Hard SF, fantasy, and alternate history. He currently works as a wargame designer for the United States Marine Corps and has also designed and executed wargames for the USAF, USN, USSF, and the Intelligence Community. He also does game design work for the civilian market. When not crafting new stories or new games he can be found hiking in Appalachia or attending Sci-Fi Cons.

Robert E. Hampson, PhD, is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the general public.
Robert's SF writing career began with several pieces of short fiction published in 2015. He now has three collaborative novels in the Four Horsemen Universe (Seventh Seal Press) and two solo novels—one forthcoming in 2023 from Baen Books. He has co-edited two anthologies, published more than 25 works of short fiction.
Dr. Hampson's scientific career has concentrated on understanding the effect of drugs, disease, and injury on human memory, with the goal of developing a medical device to restore human memory function. He is a teacher, researcher, reviewer, scientific journal editor, and consultant. His website is http://REHampson.com.

Chris “MOGS” DiNote retired from the United States Air Force as a full colonel with 25 years, 7 months, and 29 days of service, but who's counting? He deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Noble Eagle and served in South Korea and Germany. Chris is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy Class of 1999, and a 2003 graduate of the USAF Weapons School. He writes and edits military science fiction and other speculative fiction genres for Raconteur Press. He blogs at the Substack site Upstream Reviews. An amateur musician, Chris has also played saxophone and bass in several bands. He was born in Philadelphia PA, raised in South Jersey, and currently resides in the Florida Panhandle with his wife and fellow author Jaime DiNote (aka "Liska McCabe"), their daughter (and fellow author) Remy, and young son Rhys.

Rob Reed graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Journalism and has worked as a emergency room clerk, newspaper reporter, radio producer, magazine staff writer, and freelance writer and editor. He is also a firearms instructor, collector of vintage military weapons, and all around “projectile launcher enthusiast.” He writes about the history and use of firearms for a variety of publications and websites and has acted as a weapons consultant for other authors.
Rob writes across multiple genres including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries and thrillers. His fiction is featured in national best-selling anthologies. He also publishes under his Cold Iron Press imprint.
He lives with his wife, Marie, in the Metro Detroit area with their three cats and their untenably large book collection. Rob inherited his love of books from his parents, both voracious readers, and reads anything and everything he can get his hands on.

A.C. Haskins is a former Armored Cavalry Officer and combat veteran, turned economist and business strategist (and occasional firearm instructor). He has a lifelong love of speculative fiction, having written his first science fiction novel as a class project in the eleventh grade. His interests include (but are not limited to) ancient and medieval history, mythology, applied violence studies, tabletop gaming, and theoretical economics. He lives in Michigan with his wife, two cats, and a dog.

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- Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2020Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseFreehold: Resistance is a welcome addition to Michael Z. Williamson's Freehold universe. This time MZW invited some of his coolest friends to join in.
In the Freehold universe Freehold is a former Earth colony in a future where the UN and its sensibilities have become the ruling government of Earth. Freehold is quite the opposite, being solidly libertarian in it's governance and outlook.
The UN (i.e. Earth) decides that is too free and hurtful and invades to bring its colony back into the fold. While those events are covered in the previous Freehold books enough is told in this volume that a new reader can start right away with Resistance. Bottom line: This planet has a lot of liberty. The UN wants to make it behave. Freehold is populated with very sneaky deadly people who will fight to regain their freedoms. And then the hijinks start.
The individual stories are interwoven between each other along a timeline that is shepherded by three main narratives - the hacker white hat/black hat community, a logistics manufactory ship in deep space, and the diary of the UN force commanding General. Some of the other stories, such as the skywheel operator working to redirect supplies as well as the smugglers co-opted to work for the UN are in multiple parts and are spread out to match the timeline. That is fun because it provides a kaleidoscopic view of the facets this war goes through without being sucked down for too long in one area.
I'm not going to go into the individual stories. Other reviews have done better. There is such a variety to the stories to enjoy: personal courage exhibited by the skywheel operator, the frustration of the UN general who is fighting both the Freeholders and the lickspittle bureaucrats and contractors from the UN, the worries and wearying coordination required by the leader of the hackers, the final heroism of an uncle passing the torch to his nephew who thinks him a coward, the pissed-off anger of assassins guild members when the UN puts them out of business, or......the hunt of military leopards. Who doesn't like big killer cats?
This book is as much stories of an invented universe as it is a way of informing folks there are a variety of ways to deal with rude houseguests. I think Martha Stewart (aka NYBOP inmate 55170-054) would approve.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI've followed Mad Mike since I read Freehold the first time. Freehold is grand story but there were always parts that made you want more detail on how certain things happened. This collection of stories written by great authors who know hard military sci fi like the ILOH (that's the International Lord of Hate for those of you in the know and a fantastic writer who will be even better when he becomes a real author), Kacey Ezell (her other books are also great), Brad Torgerson and a bunch of others weaved together to tell you the rest of the story of Freehold that only got passing mention. It's good and it rounds out Freehold very well. You do need to read Freehold first, but this compilation wasn't just a set of disconnected stories-- it tells the rest of the story. Finished it very quickly and then I had to reread Freehold again. Mad Mike did find good authors and he weaved them together so it was hard to keep track of which author wrote what. I loved it all.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseWhile I still need to acquire the Ripple Creek series, this entire series of books has been enthralling to me. Resistance fills in some of the back story that was alluded to in in the original Freehold. If you read that, then you you'll see some of names come up. It also serves as an exploration of people in desperation at the possible loss of their homes and what they will do to keep it, ESPECIALLY when the haven't been encumbered by a system that says it's not their job.
As a technician, I was especially intrigued by the exploits of Force, and almost threw a cheer with the crew when their efforts were recognized by those they had supported.
Another fine work from Mr. Williamson and Company and a more then worthy addition to the Freehold books, highly recommended....dammit, now I'll have to read them all again...
- Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA fairly detailed collection of episodes of the Freehold-UN war, from a variety of styles. The Editor has managed to stitch together or orchestrate a readable novel. It is still a pastiche of writers imitating Williamson. Pretty clearly heavily influenced by modern libertarian and oddly conservative survivalist thinking.
A good yarn, as long as you can appreciate the rather slanted viewpoint. But a lot of SF particularly is very successful taking a concept or situation to extremes. This involves some very gory extremism, and many of the sub story heros/heroines do not survive their heroism - actually a refreshing deviation from lots of writers who manage to keep their characters going like Saturday morning serials of the 50's!
A good read, and only the existence of this yarn as part of a series tends to give away the ending.
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Amazon CustomerReviewed in Canada on April 7, 20215.0 out of 5 stars Great stories
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseFills in the behind the lines resistance by irregulars and scattered forces. I love the whole series. Looking forward to the next one
Philippe A BruneauReviewed in Canada on December 12, 20195.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseProbably the best anthology of a asymmetric war written to date. Using multiple authors covering different facets makes for a excellent presentation of the chaos inherent in building a modern resistance to invaders.
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