Re: Reading Request.
From: Ray Forsythe <erf2@g...>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:28:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Reading Request.
Warren Shultzaberger wrote:
> As I've said, I'm a big time Honor Harrington fan.
>
> I've also read Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and plan on
> getting The Shiva Option When it comes out on paperback (I hate when
the
> 1st books of the series are in paperback, the publisher sees how well
> they sale, and decides to publish one in hardback. I like my series to
> match - either all paperback or all hardback)
>
> I read - Hammer's Slammers, Starfist, and The Bolo books.
>
> Could anyone recommend some similar space battle or Sci-Fi war books?
>
> Warren Shultzaberger
> "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain."
>
> PS - I also have Starship Troopers - the book that started all this
for
> me.
>
>
>
>
Any of the "There Will Be War" series is just chock-full of mil SF
goodies.
At the risk of getting flayed, I've been rather pleased with Dan
Abnett's
"Gaunt's Ghosts" series from GW, which follow an imperial guard regiment
through
a variety of theaters. The third one in particular is pretty neat
sci-fi take
on Stalingrad. Mind you if you simply can't stand the WH40K setting,
these are
not the books for you, but in all fairness, a lot of the uber-silly
stuff from
40K is absent from these.
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