Re: Printed works of future combat

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

> jeremy claridge wrote:
> > Can anyone let me know of any books with either Full Thurst ship to
> > ship combat or DS2 style combat. I've read some Hammers Slammers
> > stuff and was just wondering what else existed.
> 
> 
>	PASSAGE AT ARMS by Glen Cook ("Das Boat" in deep space)
> 
>	THE MERCENARY
>	WEST OF HONOR
>	PRINCE OF MERCENARIES all by Jerry Pournelle
>				( ground combat with Faulkenberg's 42nd)
>

Also GO TELL THE SPARTANS & PRINCE OF SPARTA, colonial civil
war/insurrection w/ part of Falkenberg's 42nd. (these two are with S.M.
Stirling, who's a good combat-SF writer, IMHO)(but his alt-hist books
are
strange, esp the Draka lot...)

Those two books plus Drake's Slammers books have been the largest
influence on my DS2/SG2 gaming...

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
 
>	THE ARMAGEDDON INHERITANCE by David Weber
>				( space opera-esque titanic ship combat
)
>