Author Topic: military-sci fi (Read 589 times)

dmf · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2006, 08:16:03 PM »

The 7th Carrier, was a good book, well I liked it anyway.

jigsaw · « **Reply #16 on:** July 01, 2006, 09:02:43 PM »

TV Series - Space Above and Beyond. Not aired anymore but I think you can get it from netflix.

Books - John Steakly's Armor is better than Heinlen's Starship Troopers. Both are based around bug wars.

dmf · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2006, 09:11:16 PM »

I don't get into the ones with big bugs in them, bugs really give me the creeps

Shifty · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2006, 09:42:20 PM »

I can't remember the author , but the book The Burning Mountain I enjoyed quite a bit. It was about the invasion of mainland Japan in 1946 following the failure of the Atomic Bomb.
Since it was set in 1946 there were a few aircraft such as the F8F Bearcat involved.

FLS · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2006, 10:18:25 PM »

There's some good stuff here and it's free.

http://www.baen.com/library/

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 02, 2006, 12:37:13 AM »

Roughneck Chronicles: Starship Troopers. It's a CGI TV show, designed for kids. The problem is that it was marvelously crafted, scripted and had a lot more to it then any kid would understand. The show was crafted after the book, not the movie also

The HUGE problem though, was that it was very rarely shown on TV, and even then on channels no one watched. I only stumbled across it by accident.

In the show, there are 7 Campaigns. Each campain is broken into 5 or 6, 20 minute chapters. So around 13 hours of good TV in the full thing.

The absolute worst problem with it though... The producers didn't make the last 2 chapters of the final campaign. There were 3 ****ing chapters left to finish off the WHOLE Golly-geeN SERIES, and they decided not to make them.

Ghosth · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2006, 07:05:20 AM »

For Military Sci/Fi you need to check out David Drake.

Start with "hammers slammers", heavy tanks set in the future and go from there.

gunnss · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2006, 03:52:13 PM »

(Sigh)

David Webber, John Ringo, David Kake Err Drake, (Princess of Wands joke), Eric Flint, LM Bujold, Sm Sterling, Mike Sheppard, Elezibeth Moon, William C. Dietz, Timothy Zann, Arthur C Doyle, H G Wells, J. Vern, L Frankoski, R. A. Heinline, J Halderman, L.E. Modesitt, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Cordwainer Smith, N.L. Smith, and ERB. Just off the top of my head.......

I have about 1800 paperbacks, and 800 HB, and am up to about 100 "E" books. Also I have missed quite a few, but thiese are a start.

Try the pallden of Shadows seris by J. Ringo, I have the first 4 and the 5th be in ARC soon.

Baen.com has a free library with the first of many of thiese authors there
Oh a few more David Freer, Rodger Zelazny, Tad Willams, and Ann McCaffery.

Go to World con, it is in LA this year, (I'll be there with beer) and go to the Baens Barfly party

Gunns

And especially try
Schlock mercenery by Howard Taylor
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

Maverick · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2006, 04:15:17 PM »

In addition to the authors already mentioned I'd add Chris Bunch and Alan Cole.

IIRC Laumer was the one that started the BOLO books but he is certainly not the only one that wrote books about them.

Good selection there Gunnss.

gunnss · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2006, 09:46:34 AM »

Alas I have become addicted to the ARC (advance reader copy) and am now 7 months ahead of the publication dates for most of the series I am following.....

ie I have all ready read, Unto The Breach (John Ringo), and 1635 Cannon Law (Eric Flint)
(Sigh)

Gunns

Boroda · « **Reply #25 on:** July 03, 2006, 01:04:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Shifty
Theres an author named Harry Turtledove , that had a series of books about an Alien Invasion that occurs during WWII. Forcing the combatants of earth to band together to fight off the aliens. I read part of one , but gave it up as I'm not a big sci-fi fan. However a real sci-fi fan might like the series. I can't remember the name of the series, but he did quite a few alternate reality stuff including some Civil War stories.

WorldWar?

The silliest sci-fi I have ever read. Russians are complete, 100% idiots. Evil Stalin sending poor prisoners from GULag to enrich Uranium with bare hands. Every Russian seems to have a Party Policy imprinted deep into his brain. Aliens so stupid that they can't understand what ships in the seas are for. Alien jet planes attack like WWII dive-bombers, as if they crossed light-years of space and don't have a technology to aim bombs from stratosphere....

indy007 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 03, 2006, 01:18:24 PM »