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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4666790" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>David Drake is the king of Military SF, IMHO, when he's good he's great, when he's not he tends to suck.</p><p></p><p>Forlorn Hope is probably his best book. It's sort of kinda set in his "Hammer's Slammer's" Universe. It's about a band of mercs that get betrayed and have to fight their way out.</p><p></p><p>Of his Hammer's Slammers books, the first short story compilation, "Hammer's Slammers" has some great stories. Rolling Hot and The Warrior are both very good and recently collected in a omnibus volume. Counting the Costs is okay. The rest are pretty much eh, at best.</p><p></p><p>If you like historical fiction with a touch of SF, his Belesarius series (co written with Eric Flint) is a great read. Basically there's a time war going on and the industrial revolution starts kicking off in Justinian's time (Eastern Roman Empire). It does start to suffer a bit from everyone being Uber characters towards the end, but is still very entertaining.</p><p></p><p>Larry Niven is great and pretty much anything by him is a good read. His "Mote" books with Jerry Pournelle are great as well.</p><p></p><p>I would ... NOT recommend the Cornelius books by Moorcock. I'm a big fan of his and I could barely force myself to get through them, only so I could say I'd read all of his stuff (out at the time). His other more SF-ie stuff is at least okay, but none of it is something I'd rate as much better than "okay".</p><p></p><p>Edmund Hammilton's "Night's Dawn" series is pretty interesting and well written. He's got a knack for thinking about some of the implications of technology. Fallen Dragon wasn't bad and the Nightflyer series was very good as well. The more recent "Dreaming Void" follow on to the Nightflyer books wasn't as good though.</p><p></p><p>Charles Stross is pretty good. Another guy with a knack for some of the implications of technology. Iron Sunrise was good as are the other books in that "world". He has a modern take on the Cthulhu mythos that's very good "The Atrocity Archives" and "The Jennifer Morgue".</p><p></p><p>David Webber is almost always a terrific read, but he does get kind of pedantic at times and many of his villains do tend to be kind of one dimensional. Still almost always a great read despite this.</p><p></p><p>John Ringos main Possleen series is pretty good military SF. His "Through the Looking Glass" books are good as well. The later Possleen books are a very mixed bag and I would probably just avoid his "Ghost" series about a Special Forces guy (Just google "oh john ringo no!" if you want to know why).</p><p></p><p>Glen Cook does do mainly Fantasy, but his "The Dragon Never Sleeps" (SF despite the title) is one of my favorite books.</p><p></p><p>I enjoyed a lot of Jack L Chalker's early stuff a lot (Well World), but eventually you realize all of his books are based around body swapping/changing and you start to just wonder about him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 4666790, member: 149"] David Drake is the king of Military SF, IMHO, when he's good he's great, when he's not he tends to suck. Forlorn Hope is probably his best book. It's sort of kinda set in his "Hammer's Slammer's" Universe. It's about a band of mercs that get betrayed and have to fight their way out. Of his Hammer's Slammers books, the first short story compilation, "Hammer's Slammers" has some great stories. Rolling Hot and The Warrior are both very good and recently collected in a omnibus volume. Counting the Costs is okay. The rest are pretty much eh, at best. If you like historical fiction with a touch of SF, his Belesarius series (co written with Eric Flint) is a great read. Basically there's a time war going on and the industrial revolution starts kicking off in Justinian's time (Eastern Roman Empire). It does start to suffer a bit from everyone being Uber characters towards the end, but is still very entertaining. Larry Niven is great and pretty much anything by him is a good read. His "Mote" books with Jerry Pournelle are great as well. I would ... NOT recommend the Cornelius books by Moorcock. I'm a big fan of his and I could barely force myself to get through them, only so I could say I'd read all of his stuff (out at the time). His other more SF-ie stuff is at least okay, but none of it is something I'd rate as much better than "okay". Edmund Hammilton's "Night's Dawn" series is pretty interesting and well written. He's got a knack for thinking about some of the implications of technology. Fallen Dragon wasn't bad and the Nightflyer series was very good as well. The more recent "Dreaming Void" follow on to the Nightflyer books wasn't as good though. Charles Stross is pretty good. Another guy with a knack for some of the implications of technology. Iron Sunrise was good as are the other books in that "world". He has a modern take on the Cthulhu mythos that's very good "The Atrocity Archives" and "The Jennifer Morgue". David Webber is almost always a terrific read, but he does get kind of pedantic at times and many of his villains do tend to be kind of one dimensional. Still almost always a great read despite this. John Ringos main Possleen series is pretty good military SF. His "Through the Looking Glass" books are good as well. The later Possleen books are a very mixed bag and I would probably just avoid his "Ghost" series about a Special Forces guy (Just google "oh john ringo no!" if you want to know why). Glen Cook does do mainly Fantasy, but his "The Dragon Never Sleeps" (SF despite the title) is one of my favorite books. I enjoyed a lot of Jack L Chalker's early stuff a lot (Well World), but eventually you realize all of his books are based around body swapping/changing and you start to just wonder about him. [/QUOTE]
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