Switchback Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Thanks!Now to find some copies...dig it. http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/CryoburnCD/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonius Pius Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 dig it. http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/CryoburnCD/Thanks! You are a true knight, Ser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noshowjones Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld is pretty awesome. It has been awhile since I read it, but I remember it having some pretty cool concepts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lannes Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 I thoroughly enjoyed The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell in a guilty, military space operatic sort of way. My wife is reading the series now and she is digging it too...somewhat to my surprise. :P I also enjoyed the first 4 books of the Warhammer 40K series, The Horus Heresy, and need to pick up the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 http://www.cybermage.se/tag/top-military-science-fiction-series/My five cents ... from March this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Armor, by John Steakley.This is one of myt all time favorite books... I can not recommend it high enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukelavee Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I totally agree - Armor is a fun fun book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Pretty interesting list there, Ove. I'll have to bookmark it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 http://www.cybermage...fiction-series/My five cents ... from March this yearAny list Miles is on, and is not Number 1 is shit. It is known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Any list Miles is on, and is not Number 1 is shit. It is known.I haven't even read those(yet) and I can go with that. Also, any list with Elizabeth Moon and Neal Asher....blech.Also, insert obligatory Dragonlance joke.Also also, Tanya Huff? Double blech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Based on what I've read, Asher is no more military SF than Morgan is, and since Asher is nowhere near as good as Morgan, it's odd to have him on the list but not Morgan. Gibson also isn't military SF, certainly nowhere near the level that say Hamilton is (and, as I said upthread, Hamilton has military action in his SF but that's not quite the same thing), so again it's odd to have one and not the other.The biggest and most notable absence is Abnett though. A much better writer than Zahn or Weber (who aren't unenjoyable), frankly. If the list compiler's excuse is he hasn't read Abnett, Hamilton or Morgan, I'd question whether it was a good idea to compile the list in the first place. It'd be like me trying to put together a Top Ten Steampunk list, I'm not well-enough read in the field to come to a conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisDantas Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm a bit surprised the Chtorr books weren't mentioned. Maybe I just missed them?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'll be honest. My main beef with Neal Asher is that the man himself is a douchehat.Moon and HUff are just plain awful, imo though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woofdog2 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 The dragon never sleeps, glen cook, - he does mainly military fantasy, though.Shenandoah series by roland green, 6 books, both space and land-based warfare. I enjoyed it.may think of more later and add Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 The dragon never sleeps, glen cook, - he does mainly military fantasy, though.YES!! The Dragon Never Sleeps is awesome. Passage at Arms is just as good. Both are fucking great, and underappreciated. Hell, the Starfishers trilogy is solid too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Hell yes. Passage at Arms is 100x better then every book on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woofdog2 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 YES!! The Dragon Never Sleeps is awesome. Passage at Arms is just as good. Both are fucking great, and underappreciated. Hell, the Starfishers trilogy is solid too.I totally forgot Passage at Arms! I considered Shadowline, but it is soooo convoluted with the Storm/Dee thing, I think most people would be like 'shoot Dee and things would be better and none of this crap would happen,'.Agree on the starfisher trilogy as a whole.Does David Drake - Ranks of Bronze count as military SF?If anyone enjoys Cook's Military SF, his military fantasy is arguably better and there is a lot more of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 A much better writer than Zahn or Weber (who aren't unenjoyable), frankly.Zahn is a very inconsistent writer, but I have enjoyed several of his books. I would not put him high on a list, as there is much better, but I think he has a place of any top 25 of the genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I totally forgot Passage at Arms! I considered Shadowline, but it is soooo convoluted with the Storm/Dee thing, I think most people would be like 'shoot Dee and things would be better and none of this crap would happen,'.Agree on the starfisher trilogy as a whole.Does David Drake - Ranks of Bronze count as military SF?If anyone enjoys Cook's Military SF, his military fantasy is arguably better and there is a lot more of it.Holy shit! Glen Cook writes Military Fantasy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Holy shit! Glen Cook writes Military Fantasy?Through exhaustive internet searching, I have found he wrote an obscure series called "The Black Company."Seriously though, I don't know why I have avoided his Scifi, I need to remedy that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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