I wouldn't let the subject matter of "Ghost" disuade people from his books. The Ghost series seems to be its own beast.
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Looking Glass itself (Vol 1) I took to be essentially "screwball space opera", a right-at-the-top, no holds barred romp. Wasn't perfect but still a fun enough read. (It was clearly intended as a stand-alone and the last section is a clear last minute addtition to open up the door for Vorpal Blade.)
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Yeah, reality kinda goes out the window, so to speak. It felt a bit like Independence Day, but not nearly so arch.
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No kinky sex. No political proselitizing outside of some rather fun digs at that french (but lets face it; making fun of the french *is* fun, cheap shots or not) and, in fact, the first volume gets a few digs in at the Bush brothers.
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Well, he does get some digs in the general liberal-ness of most scientists. It is a no-brainer that Ringo is a conservative, but that usually comes with the territory with military fiction as well.
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But there is more to Baen than that; just troll the free library for Keith Laumer's Retief, Manly Wade Wellman's John the Balladeer, Tom Goodwin's Cold Equations. They're going out of their way to keep a lot of great writers of the 50's and 60's visible. Hardly a one-note-crew.
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Yes, Baen has been good at getting older catalog titles out there, including some of Heinlein's JA stuff (Farmer In The Sky and The Rolling Stones come to mind.).
I highly recommend Wen Spenser. "Tinker" and "Wolf Who Rules" is probably some of the better urban fantasy I've read. Sarah Hoyt's "Draw One In The Dark" was also pretty good.
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If you haven't read Bujold, you're missing great stuff. Anybody who's passed on A CIVIL CAMPAIGN is depriving themselves of one of the greater joys in life; a Science Fiction comedy of manners, folks! Jane Austen would be a fan.
(As for strong women... Brrr! Cordelia Naismith. Team Koudelka. Ekaterin Vorsoisson. There is strength and then there is strength of character. Bujold does the latter.)
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I haven't read a bad Bujold book yet, tho I haven't read her "Sharing Knife" series yet.