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Ian Douglas - Marines in space. Three trilogies; Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance. Pretty good stuff
Jack Campbell - Lost Fleet series. Pretty good too. Mike Shepherd - Kris Longknife series. Very good, female Marine. Edit; Oops as a former mud pounder you will have to forgive me for mixing up the squids and the jarheads. First story leads off with her leading Marines as a navel ensign. Rick Shelley - A bit dated but good boots on the ground stuff. His Dirigent Mercenary Corps series is very good and he has done the Second Commonwealth War trilogy and the 13 Spaceborn - Lucky 13th trilogy. He started the Spec. Ops series before his death. Last edited by NormHart; 10-04-2009 at 06:04 PM. |
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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. ______ Dennis |
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As a note, when you're reading John Ringo's books, you might also want to be wary of anything co-written with Kratman. ("Right Wing" dosn't really describe him, more someone miles out to the right and playing with his guns.)
On the other hand, I'd like to second the Freehold (or, how a commited right winger can write good military scifi which is perfectly readably by a European liberal) books. I also like quite a few of the battletech books, but they're very much pulp..the mechs don't even pretend to realism (I also play the board game, soo). Last edited by DawnFalcon; 10-04-2009 at 08:32 PM. |
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I'll second Wayspooled's suggestion of C.J. Cherryh (one of my favourite authors) and Timothy Zahn.
In addition to the books listed by Cherryh, _TriPoint_ is very good and _Downbelow Station_ is essential background reading and _Merchanter's Luck_ is a fascinating story looking at a military action from the outside in. _Finity's End_ is an excellent story set after the conflict w/ a fascinating insight on who would get chosen for pilot positions and why and how. For Zahn, I actually preferred _The Blackcollar_ and its second sequel (still need to track down a copy of the 3rd book in the series) --- interesting consideration of how sensor technology would affect military equipment and training. William |
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Don't know if one should count it as Sci-Fi or not, but I liked the "Axis of Time" series by John Birmingham
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There's been a very quiet mention of the Bolo stories - let me mention them explicitly.
Originally by Keith Laumer, there are Bolo stories by many authors. Bolos are large 'tanks' with AI controllers partnered with a human commander. Keith Laumer's original Bolo stories are just about to come out in the November 2009 webcription as The Compleat Bolo - three quarters of the book is currently available in draft form, the full book sometime in the next couple of weeks. The set of six volumes by various authors, Bolos I through Bolos VI are available, as are the novels by David Weber, Bolo!, and Old Soldiers , three other novels by William H. Keith, Jr.: Bolo Brigade, Bolo Strike and Bolo Rising (this last one due in the December websciption), and even one by John Ringo and Linda Evans, The Road to Damascus which is available in the free library. http://www.webscription.net/c-32-bol...th-laumer.aspx All good stuff. Quote:
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I like Ringo best when he is a co-author. His "March to..." series with Weber is excellent military SF. His solo Council War series is also good military SF, though rendered more as military fantasy.
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I used to like Mr. Ringo's books a lot, but some of his recent books have pushed too overt a political agenda for me, unfortunately. You are right, though, the "March to ...." series is excellent. I enjoyed the early "Council War" books, but the later ones - again the politics got too intrusive for me. It's obviously a personal thing.
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