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Originally Posted by Eisengoth
Also, if you don't mind slightly softer sci-fi, Elizabeth Moon's Heris Serrano series is also quite good. The first book is a bit slow (including a rather drawn-out sequence involving a foxhunt...) but after that they're really quite engaging with some great political themes and examinations of the social results of technology... much like the Vorkosigan books, in fact.
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This is a good series that became excellent with the book "Once A Hero" as it shifts from Heris Serrano to Lt JG Esmay Suiza, a quiet officer who is considered to have low initiative who ends up in command of a ship after a mutiny and fires the deciding shot in a battle. Is she lucky or a tactical genius? And if she is a genius, how did everyone miss her before?
The characters get stronger at this point and I think Elizabeth Moon really finds her stride with Once A Hero and subsequent books.
But good to read from the beginning so you know all the players and the early books are also a good read.