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nahtoh
Caldari Bull Industries United For 0rder
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Posted - 2008.03.04 01:42:00 -
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Edited by: nahtoh on 04/03/2008 01:47:53
Originally by: pwnedgato Edited by: pwnedgato on 03/03/2008 22:06:27 Where's the love for Ringo? The Legacy of the Aldenata series is awesome military sci-fi!
You beat me to it Also his into the looking glass books up to 3 novels now is pretty good
Baencd links
The above link os good for free Baen stuff, its all above board as well...the drop the baencd part fo the url and it gives you tasters for Baen books you sample chapters for upcomming books and stuff.
I repeat this is all above board and allowed by baen...I have a number of the CDs that came bound in the hardbacks and they all state they are free to be distrubted by anybody... ========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
nahtoh
Caldari Bull Industries United For 0rder
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Posted - 2008.03.05 07:15:00 -
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Chris Bunch has also done other stuff apart from the sten books...try the last legion series pretty good and shadow warrior as well.
========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
nahtoh
Caldari Bull Industries United For 0rder
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Posted - 2008.03.10 03:16:00 -
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Originally by: Kzintee The problem I tend to have with "military sci-fi" genre is simply that it's hard to write a good book about it. The main char is someone in the middle of the events (otherwise the book would be boring) and ends up doing something heroic to save the day. Somewhere along the line the main hooks up with "significant other" who he/she has a romantic relationship with. The SO may or may not die before the end. This particularly is why (I always tend to find something else that catches my attention) I haven't picked up the Honor Harrington books...
"Old Man's War" to me was a rehash of "Starship Troopers". Seriously...couldn't Scalzi have at least changed up SOME events in the book? The war progresses the same way (including the "massacre" battle), ends the same way, etc.
As far as David Weber is concerned...I've picked up "Off Armageddon Reef" since reviews were fairly positive, and literally wanted to throw it out the window towards the end...talk about a load of generic "he/she/they were a party of super beings who could do no wrong and could slash the entire opposite army before breakfast" crap. Are his books worth reading further?
Books that I absolutely love? Anything by Hamilton. Night's Dawn trilogy, Pandora Star/Judas Unchained, Fallen Dragon (PH has in fact managed to create a complete universe within a single book!). Alastair Reynolds books. Larry Niven. I guess none of these authors really deal with "pew pew military scifi" since the genre seems to be ... shallow?
Try redliners and freehold, but i do enjoy david webber books and you did not really get close to the actual story of Off Armageddon Reef TBH...and you don't seem to notice that the HH books the "good guys" are pretty heavly out numbered and do screw stuff up (granted they have better tech, but they are very heavly out numbered).
I doubt very much you will find books where the main charater loses all the time and does not pull some kind of rabbit out of the hat.
Of course if you wish to point me to a book or even better a series where this does not happen I owuld like it... ========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
nahtoh
Caldari Bull Industries United For 0rder
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Posted - 2008.03.10 23:16:00 -
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Originally by: Kzintee Edited by: Kzintee on 10/03/2008 03:36:39
Originally by: nahtoh
Try redliners and freehold, but i do enjoy david webber books and you did not really get close to the actual story of Off Armageddon Reef TBH...and you don't seem to notice that the HH books the "good guys" are pretty heavly out numbered and do screw stuff up (granted they have better tech, but they are very heavly out numbered).
I doubt very much you will find books where the main charater loses all the time and does not pull some kind of rabbit out of the hat.
Of course if you wish to point me to a book or even better a series where this does not happen I owuld like it...
Well, if the main char always lost there wouldn't be a book about it :)
I am actually in search of another series that I'd like to read (I've read all of Hamiltons' books twice now, I need a change), hence my David Weber experience. Perhaps I'll give it another chance. My problem is that majority of paperbacks are super-thin so the entire story tends to be "He came, he saw, he conquered" with a couple of chapters devoted to each part...now that's not much of story. Try to read "War of the Flowers"...there's some depth to that story and the universe (although I got stuck on second book of the Outland).
Edit: I just kinda thought of a series where main char loses all the time and doesn't pull a rabbit out of a hat ...any book with Rincewind in it (ok, most)!
lol good point Actually if you check out the link I posted you will be able to try a number of books for free (and legal woohoo) including all of the HH books by David Webber...
I will look into the the War of The Flowers, i pretty much always on the lookout for new books ========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
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