RE: Printed works of future combat
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:00:02 +0100
Subject: RE: Printed works of future combat
>>The David Weber "Honor Harrington" and "Starfire" series (with Steve
>>White) are excellent.
>>
>>John Steakley's "Armor" is great Power Armor fun.
>>
>>Brian Keith's "Fifth Foreign Legion" series is VERY SGII/DSII ish
>
>Actually these are by William H.Keith and Andrew Keith (of Battletech
>novels fame, or should that be infamy....). But yes, all 3 books in the
>series are fun and good ideas references.
>There are also two "future Foreign Legion" novels with a cyborg twist,
by
>William C. Dietz - Legion of the Damned and The Final Battle.
>
>Also try: several books by Rick Shelley, including Jump Pay, Side Show,
>Until Relieved, The Buchanan Campaign, The Fires of Coventry (mostly
ground
>combat with a bit of ship action).
>Read M. John Harrison's superlative The Centauri Device - your FT
battles
>will never be the same again.... ;)
>Oh, and Roland Green's Starcruiser Shenandoah series, plus Peace
Company,
>and A Small Colonial War by the same author.
>
>Jon (GZG)
OOPS! A Small Colonial War is Robert Frezza, not Roland Green. Sorry.
Jon (GZG)