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Old 01-25-2017, 06:29 AM   #181
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Old 01-28-2017, 10:48 PM   #182
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I will be posting here to save this, I like reading sci fi every once in a while
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Old 01-29-2017, 12:29 PM   #183
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Similar to the Expanse/Revelation Space is G.S. Jennsen's universe starting with Starshine.

Tanya Huff had a new Confederation universe novel in 2015, does that make it contemporary? Mil, no shooting colonists. Oddball alien bits.

Not contemporary but a longtime comfort re-read is Kate Elliot's Jaran series. More like Foreigner where its not about the science, and like Foreigner lots of world building. Romance aspect but no sex scenes.
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Old 01-29-2017, 01:01 PM   #184
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Old 01-29-2017, 02:40 PM   #185
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I'm getting stick to do death of reading variations on the "space US/Space UN vs the colonists" theme in contemporary Sci-fi. I want some cool aliens damn it! Wide vistas, unimaginable strangeness.
Walter H. Hunt's The Dark Wing series, which appears to only be available from Baenebooks.com, is a quadrology, about humans vs. an avian alien species, who ultimately find common ground, an eventually ally against a third alien species. Some of the series is from the point of view of the avians.

Are you looking for books from the point of view of aliens?

Hal Clement's Heavy Planet, containing the novels Mission of Gravity and Star Light, are about centipede-like aliens living on a planet where gravity is about 3 times Earth's at the equator, and 700g at the poles. A lot of his novels are either about aliens or human-alien interaction, but no military is involved. Unfortunately, he's another dead American SF author where it is easier to get his works as ebooks in the UK than it is in the US.
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Old 01-31-2017, 11:06 AM   #187
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One of the best ever.....as is his entire Known Space series of stories.
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Old 03-11-2017, 07:45 AM   #188
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Best I've read in these genres in the past couple of years:

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (alternative history with dragons during Napoleonic wars)
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Fantasy/Magcal Realism)
Demoniac Dance by Jaq D. Hawkins (Fantasy with goblins and dragons)
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (Fantasy in mock-Arabic setting)
Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey (Time travel)
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Old 03-11-2017, 08:47 AM   #189
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ReadingManiac, which Time Shifters are you referring to? I see several books with that name.
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Old 03-12-2017, 08:18 AM   #190
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Old 03-12-2017, 08:24 AM   #191
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Oops! by Shanna Lauffey.
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Old 04-08-2017, 11:42 AM   #193
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I just finished reading both John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of Spiders. I really enjoyed both. The first book in particular hit some good Lovecraftian notes for me. Now I'm strongly considering giving The Sword of Truth series a go.
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Old 04-14-2017, 07:56 PM   #194
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Over time I have seen good things written about David Edding's The Belgariad series. After looking into it several times, it appears that it is finally available for the Kindle at Amazon US so I can finally give it a try.

https://www.amazon.com/Pawn-Prophecy...f_rd_i=desktop
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Old 04-15-2017, 08:07 AM   #195
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It's been decades since I read th Belgariad, but I do recall plowing through a lot of it back then.
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