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The first one. It was the book he wrote to get it out of his head so he could go on writing the stuff he wanted to. I'm not sure what's more disturbing -- the fact that it was in his head in the first place (that said, there are some pretty toxic corners in my own head) or the fact that his fanbase ate it up and demanded more.
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I'm not sure that much of "his" fanbase, his scifi fanbase, did. I certainly have no interest in then, but if they sell that well - I can understand why he keeps writing them, and that they have a solid fanbase.
As to "being in his head", well, some of the David Drake's Slammers stuff is also pretty unpleasant. David talks in the Complete Slammers that Jim Baen wouldn't look him in the eye when he was buying it, back then. I find them good stories, personally, but that is a personal preference. And... I won't read anything Kratman's even co-written, personally. My choice again (I have read a two-page synopsis of each of the ones I've skipped which leaves me feeling I'm missing nothing).
Then again, I like Mr. Ringo, I got to play with the LOTA setting for a RPG which was very nearly published, and I like doing that sort of thing, soo
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Have you tried The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? That's one of my favorites, along with Citizen of the Galaxy and Tunnel in the Sky.
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I have a big enough interest pile...I'll stick em on the end somewhere
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(not to mention the more dogmatic libertarians)
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Yea, please <winces> (I'm a classic liberal, and they keep trying to claim me as one of their own, which I am SO not).
And, er, I wouldn't recommend being shot at for a wake-up call in reality, but it's remarkable how well it works. (No, I have not been in the military. Northern Israel, and leave it at that) It's actually one of the reasons I can get on with some of right mil sci-fi writers, mainly vets - they're just willing to let unimportant things drop when you're working with them, in favour of
getting things done.