"They had spent all that money on us just to kill us in training?" ~ from Joe Haldeman's The Forever War
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| Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack CampbellMilitary SF. After battling the Syndicate Worlds for a century, the Alliance is losing. Stranded in enemy territory, its fleet crippled, the Alliance has one last weapon to deploy against the Syndics: legendary war hero Captain John "Black Jack" Geary, awakened from hibernation after decades of drifting through space, presumed dead. Currently the highest ranking Alliance officer, Geary takes control of the battle cruiser Dauntless, which carries the Syndic hypernet key, a crucial component of the Alliance victory strategy. But can Geary live up to his own legend? Dauntless kicks off the Lost Fleet series. For another action-packed, plot-driven novel about a cryogenically frozen and revived space hero, try John C. Wright's The Hermetic Millennia. |
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| Death's Head by David GunnMilitary SF. A member of the Death's Head, the intergalactic equivalent of the French Foreign Legion, mercenary Sven Tveskoeg survives one deadly mission after another thanks to a winning combination of hard-won skill, super-human abilities, and plain luck. Fans of fast-paced, violent shoot 'em up science fiction starring rough-and-tumble antiheroes (such as Kieran Shea's Koko Takes a Holiday) should enjoy this opening installment of the Death's Head series, which continues with Maximum Offense and Day of the Damned |
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| The Forever War by Joe W. HaldemanMilitary SF. Drafted into the military to battle the Taurans in interstellar space, William Mandella rises through the ranks quickly -- or slowly, depending on one's perspective. For Mandella, his career spans mere months. To outsiders, he's been serving his planet for over 1,000 years, due to the wonders of faster-than-light travel. A millennium of combat leads to moving meditations on the nature of war in this thought-provoking novel, originally published in 1974, which won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards. |
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| Trading in Danger by Elizabeth MoonMilitary SF. Kylara "Ky" Vatta, daughter of an interstellar transport magnate, dreams of being a military commander. Unfortunately, that dream is dashed when she's booted out of the space academy on Slotter's Key. Returning home in disgrace, Ky is surprised when her father gives her command of a spaceship, albeit one that is bound for the scrapyard. Entrepreneurial by nature, Ky wangles a delivery deal that might afford her enough profit to purchase and overhaul the ship -- that is, if she and her crew can survive an interplanetary war and attacks by mercenaries. Stalwart, intelligent, and creative, Ky is a protagonist that Honor Harrington fans can't help but admire. |
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