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Originally Posted by jscarbo

Try some classic SF such as works by James H. Schmitz, Gordon R, Dickson, H. Beam Piper, Jerry Pournelle, etc. Many may be found for free here: http://www.freesfonline.de/RecommendedStories.html

Cool link. I think I've seen that site before but had forgotten about it.

Lot's of good ideas in this thread. To the library!