John Ringo Comments On New Book ‘The Last Centurion’

Best-selling SF author John Ringo told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, The Last Centurion, felt like dictation from the future, but, given the subject matter, he prays to God it wasn’t.

“Many of the subjects discussed in the book are subjects I’ve studied for other reasons, some of them for decades, but the genesis was a voice whispering in my ear: ‘Go and search beyond the ranges,’” Ringo said in an interview.

The novel was written in a rush, over an 11-day period. “I thought at first it was just going to be a short [story],” Ringo said. “Then a novelette. Then it was suddenly a novel. And it felt, eerily, like someone was dictating from the future. It wasn’t my normal sort of writing frenzy, and the book is not at all like my normal books. It is a memoir told in blog-style format similar in essence to any of the current books where people take their essays and blog entries and compile them with some additional explanation.” Read more