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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Ok, you hooked me. Just bought the first book of the series.
Gosh, so many series over the years that I have loved and re-read. Ok. Here is a series that I just discovered this year (and probably mentioned).
Marc Alan Edelheit's Chronicles of an Imperial Legionnaire Officer. Think a mix of Roman history and magic. Maybe a blend of Turtledove and Moon.
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Sounds interesting, I'll check it out. I like Moon, haven't read any Turtledove.
If you like Roman history, have you read Maureen McCollough's First Man in Rome series? I think it went downhill when Gaius Julius Caesar (grandson of the Gaius Julius Caesar we met in the opening scene of the first book) grew up. He became so over-the-top competent in everything -- that might be historically plausible, but I found him annoying. I stopped halfway through the last book, but I've gone back to reread favourite parts of the first books more than once.
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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
I'm a science fiction fan, and if I was going to recommend a series for anyone to read, it would have to be Ben Bova's "Grand Tour" series. Its something which captured my imagination completely. You don't really have to read in any particular order, but some books should be ordered because of references back and forth. I've found the books to be believable... that is, there arent any bug eyed monsters, or crazy aliens, or any of that stuff... its just about humanity spreading through the solar system, and how Bova thinks things will progress.
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This also looks interesting (oh, my poor TBR pile
). I really like science fiction which deals with the impact of technolgy on society. Elisabeth Moon and Lois McMaster Bujold do this very well.