Series
Black Tide Rising (John Ringo)
John Ringo, Mike Massa, Gary Poole, Jody Lynn Nye, Brian Trent, Christopher L. Smith, Jason Cordova, Michael Z. Williamson, Robert E. Hampson, Sarah A. Hoyt, Brendan DuBois, Charles E. Gannon, Dave Freer, Griffin Barber, Jamie Ibson, John Birmingham, Kacey Ezell, Lydia Sherrer, Brent Roeder, David Klecha, Eric Flint, Eric S. Brown, John Scalzi, Kevin J. Anderson, Mel Todd, Michael Gants, Rebecca Moesta, Robert Buettner, Stephanie Osborn & Travis S. Taylor · 11 novels · 1 novella · 16 novelettes · 31 short stories · 4 anthologies · 2013–2025
Black Tide Rising opens with a bioengineered plague that turns most of humanity into feral, aggressive threats, following the Smith family as they refit an old sailboat and fight to survive and rebuild some form of civilization from the wreckage. John Ringo's original quartet spawned an extended shared-world series co-written with several collaborators, following other survivor groups through the same collapse. It sits in military-flavored post-apocalyptic SF rather than traditional fantasy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Black Tide Rising short fiction(48 works)
Map
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By decade
- 2010s33
- 2020s30
Shape
11 novels · 1 novella · 16 novelettes · 31 short stories · 4 anthologies
30 authors
reads like:science fictionsurvivalnorth americanear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 94% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 63 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Up on the Roofdarkest · calmest
- Across an Ocean of Starsbrightest · most intense