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For the Empire of Man, IIRC it was competently written, but coming from a former colony, I'm not a fan of books where the heroes just blow away the wogs without any kind of nuance. Council Wars to me was just boring. For the level of technology that was supposedly available, the uses it was put to was banal and uninteresting. I also didn't buy the characters. In fact, I have no idea why Ringo ever tries to write about back-stabbing schemers. He's probably such a straight forward, charge-up-the-middle kind of stud that he just doesn't have the sympathy and introspection to truly understand someone like that. |
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You might still want to try her Serrano/Suiza or Vatta books. I have never been able to get into the Paks books but really enjoyed the others. My sister is the opposite. Also, I started with Once a Hero, the first Suiza book but the 4th overall in the series, which kept me reading it. I'm not sure I would have stuck with it if I had started with the first book. I never got into the Serrano section as much as the Suiza books. Or just start with the Vatta series.
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Both "warp speed" books from Taylor Both: "Rats, bats, vats" from the free library Ryk Spoor's "Digital Knight" Rick Cooks "Wiz biz" books Seconding the recommendation of vorkosigan books and E. Moon's Paksenarrion. Should you like the latter, please keep in mind that new and forthcoming books in the "Paksverse" as the author calls it are not published by Baen. |
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The Baen Free Library has been severely reduced but still has some great books. At present, the best source for free Baen ebooks is the free CDs from Fifth Imperium: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ . They are legal downloads, not illegal fileshares.
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I started out liking Weber's Honor Harrington series, although I sometimes felt like I was reading an info dump about the French Revolution and the evils stemming from it and communism, but it's another series which gets tedious if you try to just read through. There's actually a SF fan organization based on this series, they like to wear Royal Manticorean Navy uniforms and throw parties at SF conventions. Bujold's Vorkosigan series, on the other hand runs the gamut from SF military/romance (yes, really), murder mystery, straight war stories, comedy of manners, revenge and more. I think I could read it all again straight through. In many ways, the Miller & Lee Liaden stories have a lot in common with Bujold, but I'd say they're a bit heavier on the romance. Last edited by bgalbrecht; 01-31-2014 at 02:22 PM. |
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I have already 3 rereads of vorkosigan behind me.
Two of them even before ivan's was out. Although I admit I skipped cryoburn last time. My favourites are the 1st omnibus and Memory |
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And Jo Walton has an interesting series of blog posts (scroll down. First post is March 31, 2009) on her rereading of the Vorkosigan saga in publication date order. Ms. Walton has been blogging about SF/F on Tor for ages and has some interesting things to say. |
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Let me just throw Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series into the mix. It's one of my favorites.
The first book in the series is "Primary Inversion": http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0...0812550234.htm She's an interesting person in her own right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Asaro |
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