Has anyone here read the StarStrike Trilogy? I want to know if it is any good.

Kinda confused how we go from war of the worlds, to you tube (starship troopers post), to Ian douglas next trilogy, but hey im game. I just recently added a copy of war of the worlds to my collection, I have read the book and its excellent, classic of all time. I got a fairly comphrensive biography on HG wells I plan to read just last week. Been picking up his other works as well.

The Schmeelburg version should be burned and all references to it should be removed from the collective human information database, just my honest opinion. Hey while were at it, the Motion picture(s) and Animated versions of StarShip Troopers should be pruned as well, they are both terrible.

Skink, You might try Jules Verne too, dam good author, 20000 leagues under the sea a good place to start.

I mentioned in my thread of books im reading that I finished the Ian Douglas trilogies up to date. Starstrike is great book, and continues the story and series, without missing much. The only thing of note is there is a tad bit of repetativeness on the backstory from previous books, but overall not a big deal. Definatly read it. Ian douglas is hard to get any info off the web, maybe thats intentionally, I dont know, but his real name is William Keith Jr. He has a hard/tech sci fi series called Warstrider as well, fyi.

I just reread Starship troopers (heinlein) and Forever war (haldeman), it had been a while, and these two back to back give an interesting oposing sides to the military Sci fi and approachs the rest of the books in the genre take. I may seem a little doltish, but I read up on the wiki's for Heinlein and Haldeman and was pleaseantly surprised to find RA Heinlein was born in my home town of Kansas City, Mo.

I went thru wiki pedia and created a long link list of all the Military Sci Authors I could come across and its a healthy list, this was the page I started at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_sci-fi might be of interest. Im working on most the ones on that page, as well as from this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction. My list includes classic and golden age authors as well, and I have been adding paperbacks from the 3 local Half Price books stores over the past few months. I listed most in the other thread and need to update it, but will throw out a few I just got today for fun.

Rick Shelley,

Dirgint Military Corps books (cadet thru colonel)
13th SpaceBourne series
SpecOPS Squad

Jerry Pournelle,

There will be war (I and II)
Falkenburgs Legion

Gordon R Dickson,

Combat SF (short story collection of Miltary Sci-fi authors)

William Deitz,

Legion of the dammed, book 1

Keith Laumer,

Retief Series ( I obtained 7 books of the series so far)
BOLO

David Drake,

Hammers Slammers series, (have them all save one)

David Weber,

Honor Harrington series, (I got the last two I needed today.)

Harry Harrison,

Stainless Steel rat series (original 3, couple others)
Bill the galactic Hero (original, volume 1 &2)

Joe Haldeman,

Forever Peace
Forever Free
Worlds

This is about half the ones in my reading que, lots to read and keep busy.I also came across Dan's Top Sergeant book picked it up. I have grabbed most of the main Tom Clancy books, as well as, his 4 spin off series, they look interesting.

Trang

Speaking of Heinlien, look what I found while reading Popular Science.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man