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Old 09-09-2014, 12:10 PM   #136
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I love milSF too, which is why I tried Ringo. Apparently, I just picked the wrong book...
Try "A Hymn Before Battle", which is the first in his "Posleen" series. Very good military SF.
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:19 PM   #137
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:19 PM   #138
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Those are good, certainly, but not "pure" Ringo. They were co-written with David Weber.
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:31 PM   #139
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+1. I tossed this after a chapter or two. I am looking forward to the next 'Troy Rising' book, though, if there is going to be one. Me likes my BIG space battles
I'm hoping for a new VORPAL BLADE title. It's overdue.
Hopefully it'll be be out after he wraps up BLACK TIDE RISING.
(COUNCIL WARS is also waiting...)
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Try "A Hymn Before Battle", which is the first in his "Posleen" series. Very good military SF.
Hymn Before Battle was the one I tried. I didn't really rate it.
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Ryk E Spoor is another Baen author who writes fun, agenda-less space opera and fantasy. His novel Phoenix Rising has a warrior frog as one of the main characters, with a little sword and everything lol.
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I do not see a single bad author in your post. Because you do not "like" an authors work does not make them a bad author.

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Mobile Read threads are full of posts declaring this or that writer to be bad. There's even special joy taken in trashing books that are upheld by critics and academics as literary masterpieces. We see such dismissals regularly on threads with titles like "Which Books Do You Regret Reading?"

Gander, meet kettle. If it's OK for an MR member to say that their lobotomized millipede could have written Finnegans Wake, then you should have no objection to someone expressing their opinion that a given SF writer is "bad". Personally, I'd rather hear an argument detailing a writer's alleged faults than a one-word dismissal, but that doesn't mean such dismissals are forbidden.

Also: Couldn't the smack-forehead emoticon be interpreted to mean I twitch involuntarily? (I say that as an occasionally twitchy individual.)
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Old 09-10-2014, 04:29 AM   #143
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Have you read Mark Van Name? His first one doesn't necessarily have LOTS of space battles, but I remember the second one leaning in that direction. He's a Baen author. I can't remember the titles of the series he wrote, but can look it up if you want!
Yes, I've read his 'Jon & Lobo' series. I liked them.
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His novel Phoenix Rising has a warrior frog as one of the main characters, with a little sword

...and a pistol by his side??
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...and a pistol by his side??
Mm-hmm!
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I have not read any Brad Torgersen, but now intend to do so. The mere fact that his short stories were nominated for a Hugo indicates that your opinion of his writing is not universally shared. .
Can't speak to his 2014 stories but the stuff in his Chicon7 Hugo/Campbell packet _all_ had the same plot; disaster, trek/escape, pioneering/promised land.

You could save yourself the repetition and just read about the Mormon trek to Utah under Brigham Young.
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Can't speak to his 2014 stories but the stuff in his Chicon7 Hugo/Campbell packet _all_ had the same plot; disaster, trek/escape, pioneering/promised land.

You could save yourself the repetition and just read about the Mormon trek to Utah under Brigham Young.
But...like...with lasers, or aliens, right? Isn't it SF?
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But...like...with lasers, or aliens, right? Isn't it SF?
Been a couple years. As I recall one was under the sea, the others were in space. If you want that plot with lasers go watch Battlestar Galactica, both versions of the show did it better.
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Hymn Before Battle was the one I tried. I didn't really rate it.
I just finished it. I enjoyed the second half more than the first. More action, pacing was better...more stuff 'happened.'

The tech was fun, though a few things made me go "huh?" Like,
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how can the suits run so fast without breaking off the legs of the occupant? Inertial dampening wouldn't stop joints and tendons from tearing off.


What I actually liked best about it was that while it was unabashedly the first of series, with story lines left open for other books, it was a completely satisfying self-contained novel. It didn't leave me feeling like it was just a first chapter. There was a definite feeling of "The End" rather than "To Be Continued...."

I should go find that thread of sf books that are NOT parts of series, because I'm getting kind of tired of that.
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I just finished it. I enjoyed the second half more than the first. More action, pacing was better...more stuff 'happened.'

The tech was fun, though a few things made me go "huh?" Like,
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how can the suits run so fast without breaking off the legs of the occupant? Inertial dampening wouldn't stop joints and tendons from tearing off.
Argh, I have this issue every time Superman catches a falling person.
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