Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Last Ranger
    The Last Ranger
    The Last Ranger
    Ebook38 pages22 minutes

    The Last Ranger

    By Blaze Ward

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The old-timers say it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use The Bomb. 

    Everything went to hell at that point. Dale just wants to be a Park Ranger, a warrior on the front lines between the Coastal Republic and the New Confederacy. His youth counts against him, but he will inherit the wisdom and strength of Stan Hawkins, The Last Ranger, if they both live long enough. A new, post-apocalyptic, dystopian world about a handful of men and women trying to hold things together after the world falls apart and the war continues. 

    "The Last Ranger" was previously published in "Alternate Truths".

    Be sure to read the continuing adventures of Dale collected together in, "The Rangers."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2017
    ISBN9781386665434
    The Last Ranger
    Author

    Blaze Ward

    Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe (Jessica Keller, The Science Officer,  The Story Road, etc.) as well as several other science fiction universes, such as Star Dragon, the Dominion, and more. He also writes odd bits of high fantasy with swords and orcs. In addition, he is the Editor and Publisher of Boundary Shock Quarterly Magazine. You can find out more at his website www.blazeward.com, as well as Facebook, Goodreads, and other places. Blaze's works are available as ebooks, paper, and audio, and can be found at a variety of online vendors. His newsletter comes out regularly, and you can also follow his blog on his website. He really enjoys interacting with fans, and looks forward to any and all questions—even ones about his books!

    Read more from Blaze Ward

    Related to The Last Ranger

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Why So Serious?

      Nov 28, 2021

      Why So Serious?
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Parallel Lives Lost: K Chess’s ‘Famous Men Who Never Lived’

      Feb 13, 2019

      Famous Men isn’t quite a sci-fi novel, but something more like its inverse—a book less concerned with alternate universes than their absence. The post Parallel Lives Lost: K Chess’s ‘Famous Men Who Never Lived’ appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Bill And The Tooth Fairy

      Mar 10, 2021

      Bill believed in the Tooth Fairy. Big deal, you’re thinking. Lots of kids believe in the Tooth Fairy. Well, Bill wasn’t a kid. He was twenty-eight years old. You don’t believe it. My girlfriend Mary Beth didn’t believe it, either. We were having dinn

      15 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Greece Selects French Frigate

      Nov 26, 2021

      Greece Selects French Frigate
      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In Search Of . . .

      Jan 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Pitting Wits With Sheep

      Oct 17, 2019

      Pitting Wits With Sheep
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Frozen Frontier

      Aug 13, 2019

      The Frozen Frontier
      14 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Dogs Who Saved Nome

      Dec 12, 2024

      The Dogs Who Saved Nome
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In The Midst Of Wader Smoke

      Feb 5, 2020

      In The Midst Of Wader Smoke
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Eye Of The Needle

      Dec 9, 2019

      The Eye Of The Needle
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Hard Way Around

      May 15, 2018

      The Hard Way Around
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Staranded At The Bottom Of The World

      Jan 1, 2020

      EXPLORER SIR ERNEST Shackleton was growing impatient. It had been four months since his ship, the Endurance, made its August 1, 1915, departure from London. He had planned only a brief stop at South Georgia, a desolate island eight hundred miles east

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Full Team On Snow Patrol

      Jan 8, 2020

      It was a glorious morning to be outside. The low winter sun glinted on land decorated with a light dusting of snow. Sheep sheltered against the stone walls, but rabbits abounded. It not only looked cold, it was bitterly cold. All we needed to make th

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Where The Land Screams ‘Snipe’

      Oct 14, 2020

      Where The Land Screams ‘Snipe’
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Vietnam My Son, The Soldier

      Sep 1, 2021

      Vietnam My Son, The Soldier
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Variety

      Jan 4, 2022

      The Variety
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Spruces

      Mar 25, 2023

      Spruces
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      With Bunny Barometer On Full Alert

      Feb 2, 2022

      With Bunny Barometer On Full Alert
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Holding Power

      Sep 11, 2020

      Holding Power
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In Which Dave And I Find An Amphibious Unicorn

      Feb 13, 2019

      We stood under a gang of towering firs on a shoulder of Mt. Hood, puzzled. Ferns slouched from their branches and loitered on the ground. In a place this strenuously green, it was easy to imagine we were the first humans, especially since we were los

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      More Things In Heaven

      Dec 10, 2021

      It’s the deep mid-winter, when sailors check their warps, settle down in lamp-lit saloons, top up their bogey stoves and pour themselves a dram. If they’re in tune with the outside world, they’ll also shut off the flickering screens, kill the music m

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Rock Hard

      Sep 10, 2020

      Rock Hard
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Battle of Valcour

      Jun 24, 2021

      The Battle of Valcour
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Stiff Beat

      Oct 16, 2020

      A Stiff Beat
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Where The Wilderness Is

      Jun 19, 2018

      Where The Wilderness Is
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Thrown To The Wolves

      Jan 26, 2024

      Thrown To The Wolves
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In Dad’s Hands

      Nov 24, 2018

      In Dad’s Hands
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Last Ranger

    3.5/5

    2 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Last Ranger - Blaze Ward

      The Last Ranger

      The Last Ranger

      Blaze Ward

      Knotted Road Press

      Contents

      The Last Ranger

      About the Author

      Also by Blaze Ward

      About Knotted Road Press

      The Last Ranger

      Dale looked over at the old man in the green jacket next to him and considered how the world had

      gotten

      here

      .

      Not just them, sitting here on horseback. Two men in a semi-blizzard.

      Everything.

      Martial law hadn't been the first step. Nor

      the

      last

      .

      They said it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use

      The

      Bomb

      .

      Even people in favor of nuking LA in those days had decided that was a bridge too far. Everything went to hell at that point. Flyover country became a

      foreign

      land

      .

      Still

      was

      .

      Everyone argued over who got to keep the name United States of America, but the two sides generally settled into Blue Shirts and Green Shirts as a way of telling people apart, at least in conversation.

      Stan still sat tall in the well-worn saddle after thirty-five years as a Park Ranger. Legend had it he was the last man authorized under the old United States Congress to wear the golden shield with the buffalo. When he was only a few years older than Dale

      was

      now

      .

      Back before.

      Before war, and apocalypse, and ruin. Before it was assumed that a sixteen-year-old like Dale would grow up and become a warrior.

      Stan was staring

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1