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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RedRadr on July 01, 2006, 11:16:45 AM
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anyone got a few recommends? tks
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umm BSG?
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This should be the shortest thread ever. I think redrabit just summed up the genre (well current TV anyhow).
-Sik
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Battlestar Galactica.
ack-ack
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For books, Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers". Also Jerry Pournelle's "go tell the spartans", "Falkenberg's Legions", and others.
Pournelle and Niven's "The Mote in God's Eye" is very good too. Niven's "Ringworld" series is great. There are a number of books on the "Bolo" tanks and those are pretty fun, but I can't remember the author.
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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.
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Bolo stories are great, similar in some ways to the Asimov Robot series in some ways, except with Hellbore cannons, infinite repeaters, and nukes.
The Starship Troopers and Mote in God's Eye recommendations are great, I add some more:
Ender's Game - Bestest
John Ringo's Posleen series - Go Bun-Bun!
Harry Turtledove's World War series - Alternate history, aliens attack during WWII. Fantastico, stars real life badass Otto Skorzeny.
Edit: Ha! Shifty beat me to it on the World War series, that's the one he's talking about.
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Yea he's a freak, but Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" is a pretty good book. Pretty much straight sci-fi. Maybe a zealot can find hidden meanings in there but I've read the book 4 times and thought it was a good read each time.
If you don't mind melting your brain, Asimov's "Foundation" series is pretty good, but it's not military.
For some good sci-fi mystery, read Niven's "dream park" series. Great story and really fun background technology.
There was a book called "White Wing" that was fairly fun too, but I can't remember the author. It was a space fighter pilot combat sort of storyline. Not too deep, but fun.
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Try "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Also, "Footfall" by Niven and Pournelle; not as good as "The Mote in God's Eye" but still not bad.
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Yea, how could I forget footfall? Just about everything by Pournelle is worth reading. He really did his homework with military history, and his science is fairly consistent.
Lucifer's Hammer is another good one but it's not really military. For a good satire, read Niven/Pournelle's "Inferno". Good story about hell, basically a modern, entertaining version of Dante's Inferno.
Oh yea! I just remembered a great series by S M Sterling, starting with "Island in the sea of time". It's about a time anomaly that scooped up nantucket island and transported it back in time approx 750 years. It has a ton of military stuff from the point of view of how a bunch of educated Americans might approach medieval warfare when faced with the option to either lose their "civilization" or interfere with the natural development of Europe and Asia. Very very interesting.
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The SM Stirling 'Island in the sea of time' series is great, seconded.
If you like that, you gotta check out 1632 by Eric Flint. Similar setup, but it's a West Virginia mining town moved to Europe in the middle of the 30 year war.
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Also check out the Man-Kzin War series by Jerry Pournelle and others. I believe there are 10 books in the series. The Starfist series aren't too bad either by David Sherman and Dan Craig.
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I am in the middle of reading the series by Turtledove dealing with the time 20 years after the US was beaten by R.E Lee in 1862 because his special orders were not lost to enemy hands. The first book in the series is How Few Remain and it has France and England being allied with the CSA and Germany is a neutral observer in the war that happens in 1884. After the CSA bought the Chihuahua and Sonora territories from the Empire of Mexico to help them with debts owed to France and England.
Harry Turtledove is an excellent author and wrote another one that was way out in left field called Guns of the South. About a radical South African group that somehow got access to a time machine and started funneling AK-47's and ammo into the CSA to help them against the USA in 1864 after Gettysburg. This allowed the CSA to win the Civil War.
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ROFLMAO...yup a few AK's would've had that effect; god bless those South Africans lol how about a few grenade launchers & mortars while they're at it.
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I read a book awhile back but cant remember the name
goes along the lines of "There are no fighter pilots in hell"
was a good book...least when i read it
I think there were several in a lil series
the one i read had the hero in hell dogfighting satan in helland kicking his butt lol
Maybe somebody here could come up with the name.
i googled it but all i got was the song lyrics
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The 7th Carrier, was a good book, well I liked it anyway.
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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.
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I don't get into the ones with big bugs in them, bugs really give me the creeps
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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.
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There's some good stuff here and it's free.
http://www.baen.com/library/
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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
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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....
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