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The Ashes Series
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William W. Johnstone's "Ashes" series is perhaps the most popular piece of pulp fiction still in issue today. Even two decades after they've been published, they continue to fly off the Wal-Mart shelves.Which is interesting, because Johnstone's characters would probably kill most of their readers.The "Ashes" series concerns a nuclear war which results in The End of the World as We Know It. Governments collapse, people die, and the world is left, as Ben Raines is so often to point out later, to "rise out from the ashes". The whole thing occurs because the evil librul govrnment is trying to ban firearms, and somehow gets away with it. Members of the military rebel, supposedly starting a nuclear war.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Ben Raines, former elite soldier for the US, former mercenary, full time writer, and ultimate Author Avatar, is offered a place in it but, in his "folly", refuses. After he survives the war (thanks to being allergic to wasp stings), he dithers for a while before taking control of the remaining rebels, and forming his own state and then his own nation.As the series wears on (it's a total of 40 issues), Raines and his Rebels face such varied threats as criminal gangs, liberals, Nazis, Soviets, the Night People (a surprisingly non-threatening overarching villain group), terrorists, more liberals, Middle Eastern terrorists, yet MORE liberals...the list goes on.Sound good? Well...no, it's not. Read on.Not to be confused with The Ashes. | |
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Given Raines' tendency to be a brilliant general, virile lover, father figure to his soldiers and stray orphans alike, and a two-fisted, machine gun-wielding kicker of much ass, he might even be called a a Cannon Sue. | |
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Author Tract: The entire series is basically Johnstone pushing his conservative views. | |
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Author Avatar: Ben Raines is arguably Johnstone as he wishes to be. Given Raines' tendency to be a brilliant general, virile lover, father figure to his soldiers and stray orphans alike, and a two-fisted, machine gun-wielding kicker of much ass, he might even be called a a Cannon Sue. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: The Night People have supposedly existed long enough to carve their own hidden civilization. They're also played up as major threats, but the Rebels tend to beat them easy. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Mostly a Class 1. Nearly all governments have either fallen or become police states. | |
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America Saves the Day: About when Raines decides to invade Ireland and England (and possibly France). Then, Raines and his Rebels become the official army of the new UN and this becomes the plot of most of the rest of the series. | |
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