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barcelonablom
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Military Sci-fi
Posted: 20 Apr 06 9:43 PM
 

Definite musts are Starship Troopers by Heinlein and my favorite which is kinda underscored.... The Forever War by Joe Haldeman...

Gaunt's Ghosts by Dan Abnett set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe is probably my favorite series.... Right next to Starfist...

Classic Joke is how Abnett introduces a superficial character (read: Cannon Fodder) and they get killed a paragraph later... or in the paragraph they are introduced.... Me and my friend jokes about it all the time....
Finucane
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Re: Military Sci-fi
Posted: 21 Apr 06 3:50 AM
Ah, yes, Joe Haldeman's classic.  Joe was in Vietnam, a combat engineer, I think.
mclark
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Re: Military Sci-fi
Posted: 22 Apr 06 12:03 AM
I've read Starship Troopers numerous times since I first ran into it, like a loooonnngg time ago.  That is why the movie caused me so much pain.  Heinlein was nothing if not a libertarian and suspicious of government, and the movie made the human government seem nazi/fascist, even down to to the uniforms worn by officers.  But as itself, taken apart from the book, it wasn't all that bad.  But I am easily pleased.  The recent movie Jarhead, on the other hand, sucked rocks.  Even for all it might have been true to life (I mean if they made a movie about my military career -- such as it was -- it would have been totally boring).  Realism can be over-rated sometimes.

The Janissaries series by Jery Pournelle.

The Co-Dominium Series by Jerry Pournelle.

Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake

A single novel by David Drake: Ranks of Bronze.  This one is about a Roman Legion captured by the Parthians, and sold into slavery to --- aliens!  They go about the cosmos fighting primitive peoples on behalf of their owners who, by the rules of their interstellar civilization, when diplomacy and trading break down, are not permitted to deal with iron-age cultures using modern weapons.  Drake did a lot of research into the way Roman legions of the late Republic fought battles.

And I have to say: although I am generally not all that interested in Star Wars novels (and have read very few of them), if you like Sherman & Cragg you gotta read Jedi Trial.  And it's not all about that spoiled brat Anakin Skywalker.  There are some serious combat scenes that don't involve Anakin at all, and I really loved this book.
DavidS
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Re: Military Sci-fi
Posted: 23 Apr 06 10:45 PM
Mike, Thanks much for plugging Jedi Trial. Interesting phenomenom here: The true believers, you know, those who eat, breathe, and dream Star Wars, didn't like JT. Why? Because it wasn't same-old-same-old. But readers who aren't SW true believers liked it for exactly that same reason.
shadowghost1
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Re: Military Sci-fi
Posted: 28 Apr 06 4:09 PM

I just read The Forever War on your recommendation, barcelonablom.  Thanks for recommending it.  I enjoyed it greatly and finished it in just over 1 day.  Interesting to see what he thought the time period might be like now (especially because I live about 20 minutes from Columbia, MD).

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