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<blockquote data-quote="weambulance" data-source="post: 622492" data-attributes="member: 7174"><p>I just read Charles Gannon's <em>Fire with Fire</em> and <em>Trial by Fire</em>, and they were pretty good. Not knock-my-socks-off good but good enough that I'm pretty disappointed I have to wait awhile for the next book in the series to come out. Not much science and lots of this-is-so-high-tech-we-can't-explain-it handwavium, so I guess it's more like science fantasy (as is 99% of "science fiction" these days).</p><p></p><p>I don't remember if he's been mentioned but John Ringo has some highly entertaining military SF/F in print. The man is wildly creative but generally doesn't go off the deep end with his fancies. The sole exception I can think of is <em>Ghost</em>, and as I recall he wrote that with no intention of publishing it. A lot of his books are free in digital format through the <a href="https://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx" target="_blank">Baen Free Library</a>. I'm rereading <em>There Will Be Dragons</em> right now.</p><p></p><p>... I see that I mentioned his collab series with David Weber in my first post, but Ringo's solo stuff is quite good too.</p><p></p><p>There's a lot of other good stuff free from Baen as far as that goes. The free library isn't permanent, FYI, and they have shut it down before.</p><p></p><p>Michael Z Williamson also writes good military SF. <em>Freehold</em> is kinda preachy re: libertarianism for the first 1/3 or so but it gets really good after that. Good thing it's free online, because I let a girlfriend borrow it (along with a few other of my favorite SF/F books) a week before we broke up and never got it back. :dodgy:</p><p></p><p>David Brin's <em>Sundiver</em> and <em>Startide Rising</em> are worth reading. Sentient dolphins are involved.</p><p></p><p>Piers Anthony's <em>Apprentice Adept</em> series - first three books are really good; didn't read the others because I didn't know there were more. The first three books are essentially their own series anyway because books 4+ switch to different characters.</p><p></p><p>The Xanth series was mentioned and yeah it's pretty good. Only problem is there are about a thousand books in the series and I lost interest by ~ book 8. I'll have to read them again, though, just because some SJW twinks on the internets have their panties in a bunch over how misogynistic and awful Piers Anthony is. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weambulance, post: 622492, member: 7174"] I just read Charles Gannon's [i]Fire with Fire[/i] and [i]Trial by Fire[/i], and they were pretty good. Not knock-my-socks-off good but good enough that I'm pretty disappointed I have to wait awhile for the next book in the series to come out. Not much science and lots of this-is-so-high-tech-we-can't-explain-it handwavium, so I guess it's more like science fantasy (as is 99% of "science fiction" these days). I don't remember if he's been mentioned but John Ringo has some highly entertaining military SF/F in print. The man is wildly creative but generally doesn't go off the deep end with his fancies. The sole exception I can think of is [i]Ghost[/i], and as I recall he wrote that with no intention of publishing it. A lot of his books are free in digital format through the [url=https://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx]Baen Free Library[/url]. I'm rereading [i]There Will Be Dragons[/i] right now. ... I see that I mentioned his collab series with David Weber in my first post, but Ringo's solo stuff is quite good too. There's a lot of other good stuff free from Baen as far as that goes. The free library isn't permanent, FYI, and they have shut it down before. Michael Z Williamson also writes good military SF. [i]Freehold[/i] is kinda preachy re: libertarianism for the first 1/3 or so but it gets really good after that. Good thing it's free online, because I let a girlfriend borrow it (along with a few other of my favorite SF/F books) a week before we broke up and never got it back. :dodgy: David Brin's [i]Sundiver[/i] and [i]Startide Rising[/i] are worth reading. Sentient dolphins are involved. Piers Anthony's [i]Apprentice Adept[/i] series - first three books are really good; didn't read the others because I didn't know there were more. The first three books are essentially their own series anyway because books 4+ switch to different characters. The Xanth series was mentioned and yeah it's pretty good. Only problem is there are about a thousand books in the series and I lost interest by ~ book 8. I'll have to read them again, though, just because some SJW twinks on the internets have their panties in a bunch over how misogynistic and awful Piers Anthony is. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]
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