Well Met all,
I been over the threads for books, and the latest one on The Heriatage Trilolgy by Ian Douglas, which I havent read yet, spurred me to make a list of the recent books I have picked up from books store to keep me going in between Dave/Dan's books. Any Input would be great, will read them anyhow since I bought them.
1. Nicholas Seafort Series, David Feintuch, six books (Patriarch's Hope, Midshipmans Hope, Challengers Hope, Prisoners Hope, Fishermans Hope, Voices of Hope)
2. STEN, Chris Bunch (1st book in a series)
3. The Last Legion, Chris Bunch (1st book in series)
4.Orphanage, Robert Buettner (1st Book in series)
5. Armor, John Steakly
6. Dorsai, Gordon Dickson
7. The Forge of God, Greg Bear
8. Luna Marine, Ian Douglas, (1st Book in series)
9. Halo - The Fall of Reach (1st book in series, Prequel to Halo 1 game)
10. Footfall, Larry Niven/Jerry Pernelle
11. Man/Kzin Wars, Niven/Pernelle (have various books, I believe its 11 books total, still collecting them)
12 Mass Effect-Revelation, Drew Karpyshyn (this is toss up weather military sci fi, Is prequel to the new Sci-fi game for PS3)
I have been going to half price books stores and another used book store the past few weeks digging out as many military sci fi books as I can find, a lot basedon reccomendtions, alot by guess work. The above list is my current bunch I going to start churning thru, I reading Dave's Demontech series, on last one, gulf run, and then will start in on the above. I believe Im going to bust out the one off books, then go into the series. Im reading between 3-5 books a week now so have to keep the shelves full.
Other Sci-fi I read on that arnt Military Sci-fi, are the books by the following authors(im collecting to read and rereading ones I own) :
1.Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert (Have read all the Dune novels, working on their non dune works)
2. IssacAsimov
3. Robert Heinlein
4. Douglas Adams
5. Larry Niven
6. Robert Silverberg
7. Jules Verne
8. HG Wells
9. Ray Bradbury
10. Arther C. Clarke
11. Ben Bova
Overall Im a bigger fan of Sci Fi than Fanatasy, but I am just as read in that area. I Just feel for every Sci-fi author/book, there is 10 fantasy, not sure why, but when I end up going down the road of fantasy, Its like a black hole, cant ever seem to work my way back to Sci fi. Fantasy wise I have read everything from Tolkein to Donaldson to Lewis, to Anthony to Mcaffrey, etc.
I havent got into the candy sci-fi books much, but there is a volume of books to read I guess if I ever run out. By candy I mean the Star Wars/Star Trek books, there are tons of books in these two series, I have looked them over and over and wouldnt even know where to begin. I like star wars and star trek, but more so from the video side.
Anyway Im rambling this mess is what Im working on, and again Just want to say, I am very glad I ran into the StarFist and Demon Tech books, great reads, great stories, and cant wait for more.
Be well,
Trang
i'll have to go over my library of books again to double check, but heres what i can pull outa my head for now...
i've always loved David Drakes "Hammers Slammers" story line..."Warrior" is a good place to start.
For Space navy battles, David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series is a must read...
one of the funniest books to mix military and fiction would have to be "Grunts" by Mary Gental...ork's, marine weapons, and a dragons curse...
if you like planes look up Dale Brown and "Flight of the old dog" also his "Tinman" book was cool for a more grounded story...it links up with the Old dog story line...
John Ringo a new author, his books are here and there, i did really enjoy several of his series, "March Upcountry"-Sci-fi, "There will be dragons"-sci-fi turned on its head into a cool fantasy and "Ghost" fiction of a retired navy Seal at the right place and the right time...saving a crap load of kidnapped collage gals from terrorist...
S.M.Stirling...has some great alternate earth books, one of my favorites is "Dies the fire" of a modern day earth plunged into something akin to the dark ages...
an interesting book i thought was also the "Atlantis" series by Greg Donegan...
ok my heads empty...will think up more later...
I liked the book "Old Man's War" that was a good book. Expect for the Nanobot armor. I thought that was always little bit crazy. I mean come on, the guns they had in the book could be a machine gun one minute and the other minute it's a flamethrower. But it is a good series which is followed by "The Ghost Brigades" and "The Last Colony"
I read the fist two books in the "Nicholas Seafort Series", they were pretty good, certainly better then some books I have read.
Currently I'm reading some early "pulpy" Robert A. Heinlein book, or more specifically Rocket Ship Galileo. It is really "gee-whiz" 1950s crapola, but I'm sure boys in the 50s thought the rocket age was upon them and accelerating fast. And since this is one of Heinlein’s "juvenile" books I'll cut him some slack.
You know if you read Starship Troopers about ten times and then listen to the same book unabridged on audio book ten times you can see the flaws of even Starship Troopers. That is one of my favorite books, but the reality is if you just listen to it over and over you see that the book is really simplistic and lacking weight in some chapters. Actually what you notice is that there's an awful (and I mean awful in all senses) lot of 1950s jargon, zero cussing or bad language. There is also very little complaining about the life of and MI when you get out of the parts about basic training, for that reason and the fact there is very little combat you sort of see why all these "other books" since ST have come out.
Are military sci-fi books about mechs homage to Heinlein's book, or are they more like statements of, "Well I could do it a bit better." Like I said I having read ST about 10 times and I have listened to the unabridged audio book 10 times it suddenly struck me that while other writers might stand on his shoulders they really have reach a lot further then he managed from their perch.