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If you like military science fiction along the lines of John Ringo or David Weber, you should check out Elizabeth Moon. She's a former US Marine Officer and has written two military SF series (along with a very good heroic fantasy series, The Deed of Paksenarrion series, also highly recommended), one is known as the Familias Reagnant series and is something like 8 books, the other is the Vatta's War series (Trading In Danger, Marque and Reprisal, Engaging the Enemy, Command Decision, and Victory Conditions), for which the hardback of book 5 came out a couple of months ago or so (Moon has won a Nebula and was nominated for a Hugo, also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award and was nominated for a Clarke, Moon also coauthored a series with Anne McCaffrey). I was a little bit flush with cash, and impatient to wait for it to come out in paperback, so I picked it up last week along with another Tanya Huff Confederation book. So I take off the dust jacket, find a nice book mark, and start reading it.
And I'm immediately lost.
There seems to be a huge disconnect between books 4 and 5, so I decide to re-read the series. I finished book 3 last night and couldn't find book 4, so I go to B&N pick it up and start reading it. My wife and I were sitting on the couch, and I commented that this wasn't familiar. It finally dawned on me that I'd never read it! I think I read the preview semi-chapter at the end of 3, which, along with other information in book 3, almost made sense in the opening of 5, but not enough to carry on reading it.
I'm now about half way through 4, I'll probably finish it tomorrow. Very much looking forward to getting into 5 and seeing how the series ends!
I mentioned Tanya Huff. She's a very good writer who did a series known as the Blood books about a former RCMP homicide investigator who had to retire due to a degenerating eye disease that was slowly blinding her and eventually would kill her (IIRC) who encounters a demon and eventually teams up with the bastard son of Henry the Eighth, who happens to be a vampire who writes romance stories. It's now a TV series, though sadly (IMHO) they've changed the vampire to a comic graphic artist, I think the romance novelist was infinitely better. ANYWAY, highly recommended series. That series segued into a series (of three so far) called Smoke, wherein Vickie (the former detective) and Henry (the vamp) have to part ways. Excellent books. Now, there is a new series of Blood books based on the TV show, and I can't vouch for them as I haven't read them, but I don't think they're written by Huff.
ANYWAY, I wanted to talk about the Confederation books. They are space marine military SF, perhaps more along the lines of Ringo's Posleen series than Weber & Moon's space SF. If you have any interest in military history, you will find her gimmick very interesting, but I'm not going to reveal what it is. We have the first two books, and the hardback of the third came out and I got it at the same time as the Moon book. So while I was at the book store, I picked up a single book collecting the first two Confederation books as I don't remember them very well. I saunter over to the new book rack, and there's a Confederation paperback there on the bottom -- of the THIRD book. Turns out the hard back that I'd bought is the FOURTH Confederation book!
Lots of good military SF to read. Wayne is a happy camper. Or a hampy capper. Campy happer? Wayne is tired and should go back to bed.
And I'm immediately lost.
There seems to be a huge disconnect between books 4 and 5, so I decide to re-read the series. I finished book 3 last night and couldn't find book 4, so I go to B&N pick it up and start reading it. My wife and I were sitting on the couch, and I commented that this wasn't familiar. It finally dawned on me that I'd never read it! I think I read the preview semi-chapter at the end of 3, which, along with other information in book 3, almost made sense in the opening of 5, but not enough to carry on reading it.
I'm now about half way through 4, I'll probably finish it tomorrow. Very much looking forward to getting into 5 and seeing how the series ends!
I mentioned Tanya Huff. She's a very good writer who did a series known as the Blood books about a former RCMP homicide investigator who had to retire due to a degenerating eye disease that was slowly blinding her and eventually would kill her (IIRC) who encounters a demon and eventually teams up with the bastard son of Henry the Eighth, who happens to be a vampire who writes romance stories. It's now a TV series, though sadly (IMHO) they've changed the vampire to a comic graphic artist, I think the romance novelist was infinitely better. ANYWAY, highly recommended series. That series segued into a series (of three so far) called Smoke, wherein Vickie (the former detective) and Henry (the vamp) have to part ways. Excellent books. Now, there is a new series of Blood books based on the TV show, and I can't vouch for them as I haven't read them, but I don't think they're written by Huff.
ANYWAY, I wanted to talk about the Confederation books. They are space marine military SF, perhaps more along the lines of Ringo's Posleen series than Weber & Moon's space SF. If you have any interest in military history, you will find her gimmick very interesting, but I'm not going to reveal what it is. We have the first two books, and the hardback of the third came out and I got it at the same time as the Moon book. So while I was at the book store, I picked up a single book collecting the first two Confederation books as I don't remember them very well. I saunter over to the new book rack, and there's a Confederation paperback there on the bottom -- of the THIRD book. Turns out the hard back that I'd bought is the FOURTH Confederation book!
Lots of good military SF to read. Wayne is a happy camper. Or a hampy capper. Campy happer? Wayne is tired and should go back to bed.
