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Another series I've enjoyed has been William Keith's "Warstrider" series.
The Warstrider books take place in a future where Japan rules an interstellar empire, and a colony world settled by Americans is in revolt. As the series progresses, the two sides must entire an uneasy alliance against a threat by the alien Xenos, and later from a machine civilization closer to the galactic core.
Keith has some of the weirdest aliens I've encountered. The Xenos, for example, live in planetary mantles, and see the world as rock and not-rock. An individual Xeno literally doesn't know any other life form exists. Problems occur when a human colony on the surface encounters the Xeno living beneath the ground.
And I made Keith laugh at a convention, when I told him he almost made the giant fighting robot beloved of Anime believable. The Warstriders of the series title are giant combat armor a la Mobile Suit Gundam, but Keith's handling makes them more than the targets you would expect such things to be.
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Dennis
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