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Originally Posted by Ham88
Well I'm really sure if its my favorite but it gotta be close is the Honorverse of David Weber's Honor Harrington(same intials as Horatio Hornblower). Their are a lot of politics involved, and the space battles are pretty believable because there are a lot of tactics/strategy talked about in the book. I find it very enjoyable, fine literature maybe not. Entertaining? Yes.
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I find the Honorverse very entertaining too. but as far as the universe is concerned I find it unoriginal. Empires going against eachother, political motivations, posturing. its good stories, but the world created it just a cover over earth warefare. when I wrote the first paragraph, the Honorverse and the lost fleet came to mind, along with most other Military scifi that I have read. the old mans war universe was a bit different, one of the few novels that has humanity has an aggressor on the glactic scale against non humans... but in all honesty it feels alot like the US against the rest of earth but on a galactic setting again. Especially the bit about how the galactic UN was created by humans but we didn't join it.. seems alot like alot of US policies, (US position on land mines for example)