Forgotten Ruin

By Jason Anspach, Nick Cole,

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Tolkien meets Shock and Awe


Orcs. Trolls. Wraith riders. Dark wizards. Together, they form an unstoppable force. Or so they thought.


Dark Army… meet the U.S. Army Rangers.


When a Joint Task Force of elite Rangers are transported to a strange and fantastic future where science and evolution have incarnated…

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1 author picked Forgotten Ruin as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Looking at the cover of this book, you might be scratching your head, wondering, "just what the hell is that?" It's a delicious, genre-bending twist on Fantasy and Military SF that is a must-read, I assure you.

Army Rangers, as part of a top-secret DARPA program, travel a few years into the future...to find out they're accidentally 10,000 years in the future, and the world they knew is now a Forgotten Ruin (see what I did there?) filled with monsters, magic, and mayhem.

Navigating these disastrous circumstances takes some serious ranger grit and a lot of firepower.The story…

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