> I just remembered Ender's Game. I imagine you've already > encountered that though?
>> I just discovered John Ringo and his Legacy of the >> Alldenata series. >> This guy is good, almost as good as David Drake in my >> opinion. Can >> anyone suggest another author of good military science >> fiction? Drake >> is the MSF diety, but I'm game for other author. I loved Ender's Game... Tried to read Speaker for the Dead a few years later and just couldn't stomach it. Card's writing style had change a lot in the intervening years apparently and he just wasn't entertaining for me anymore. I remember someone else saying it had gotten a lot better, but I just didn't see it. Granted, iirc that particular individual was also a devout Mormon and I suspect that had something to do with their own bias since Card was want to include Mormon concepts in his later works. My mother is Mormon so I've spent a fair amount of time around them and in their churches. These days the ship has sailed... Incidentally, it's not military sci-fi and it's certainly not hard sci-fi, but if you just want some really insanely addictive books, have a look on Amazon.com for three books by Mike Resnick titled Soothsayer, Oracle and Prophet in that order. All three of them out of print. Two others by John E. Stith, which are more science oriented (although I don't know if they qualify as hard-science and neither of them qualify as military sci-fi) called Redshift Rendezvous and Manhattan Transfer. Both just very interesting premises. The first is a murder mystery which happens in "hyperspace", an environment in which relativistic events occur at human speeds -- a person jogging down the corridor is blue coming at you and red once they pass. The second is about the entire island of Manhattan (not just the people) being abducted by aliens. My dad brought me a copy of Redshift years ago and said he knew the author personally (if not well). I picked up the latter book a couple years later and only realized it was the same author after I'd got it home. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:200365 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
