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Peeps, the classics are still the best.
- E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman & Skylark series - kickstarted the whole space opera genre.
- A. Bertram Chandler's Commander Grimes series novels are stupendously engaging.
- Roland Green's Starcrujiser Shenandoah series (also collaborated with Pournelle on the Jannisaries novels).
- David Sherman & Dan Cragg - StarF.I.S.T., Force Recon, and Demontech series are a hoot with Japanese-samurai-styled lizard aliens.
- William C. Dietz knocked it out of the universe with his Legion of the Damned series.
- John G. Henry, writing as Jack Campbell in his Lost Fleet series and it's successor Beyond the Frontier & Lost Stars spinoffs, suck you in right away.
- Who can resist self-aware megatanks of the future?
Keith Laumer's Bolo series stories are absorbing as hell, no matter which author sets his or her hand to them.
- While David Drake's Lt. Leary has already been mentioned, do not miss the series that set him on the road to fame originally - Hammer's Slammers, the ultimate mercenary company of the far future. Also by Drake are the Bellisarius series (with Flint) & the General Raj Whitehall series.
Oh hell, if his name is on it, just READ THE DAMNED BOOK. LOL
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