Re: FYI: A Suprisingly Good Sci-Fi Book

John C wrote:

>> Finally anyone have any other books they want to suggest to the other

>> avid
>> readers on the list?
> 
> 
> These actually fit the thread title quite well, but I'm almost
hesitant 
> to mention them on this list at all....
> 
> Dan Abnett's "Gaunt's Ghosts" novels.  There's...I think...six of them

> at this point.  Very well written military SF, for all that they are
set 
> in the Warhammer 40K universe.  The character are very normal, and
very 
> mortal, human beings -- not Space Marines, not supermen.
> 
> Abnett is a very good author, and I've found myself making an effort
to 
> pick up *anything* from GW that he's written.
> 
> (And for fantasy fans, anything by "Jack Yeovil" -- pseudonym of Kim 
> Newman of _Anno Dracula_ fame -- is equally worth seeking out.)
> 
> The books are good SGII inspiration, and frankly I'd have to consider 
> Stargrunt to be a much better system than 40K for emulating them.

Second that.  Book 3, _Necropolis_, is a great sci-fi take on
Stalingrad.

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Ray Forsythe - erf2@wombatzone.com - www.wombatzone.com