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INTO THE LOOKING GLASS
John Ringo
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events
portrayed in this book are fictional, and any
resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.

Copyright ┬й 2005 by John Ringo

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this
book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN: 0-7434-9880-1

Cover Art David Mattingly

First Hardcover printing, June 2005

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
 DEDICATION
To Doc Travis, one hell of a physicist, without whom this book
would have made exactly no sense.

Author's Comment
There are a few deliberate mistakes in the physics in this book (for
reasons of security) and I'm sure there are some that are undeliberate.
All mistaakes, intentional or unintentional, should be laid upon my
doorstep.




CHAPTER ONE
The explosion, later categorized as in the near equivalent of 60
kilotons of TNT and centered on the University of Central Florida,
occurred at 9:28 a.m. on a Saturday in early March, a calm spring day
in Orlando when the sky was clear and the air was cool and, for
Florida, reasonably dry. It occurred entirely without warning and while