| I didnt do it | 31 Dec 2012 3:59 a.m. PST |
Happy new year! I just got a Kindle Paperwhite as a xmas gift and already read one book on this device. I found that it is a great product and want to buy some ebooks. Any suggestion of SF/Military SF novel except Hammer's Slammer and Starship Troopers? |
| kreoseus2 | 31 Dec 2012 4:08 a.m. PST |
Hi I recommend these books, the author is a friend of mine, very good military sci-fi. link |
| MajorB | 31 Dec 2012 4:35 a.m. PST |
David Weber's Honor Harrington series |
| Dynaman8789 | 31 Dec 2012 4:45 a.m. PST |
Semper Mars, if you like Marines in space!!!! (I like them, so not making fun). 12+ books in the series so far, 3 sets of 3, and a 4th set that is now up to 4 books. Each group of 3 generally follows one time and the next set then jumps ahead a generation (or 2 or a few hundred) link |
| Aliosborne | 31 Dec 2012 5:24 a.m. PST |
I highly recomend th efollowing series lost fleet – excelent space combat link Also I have just finished reading th efollowng on my kindle Star crusade series link
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| laager50 | 31 Dec 2012 5:42 a.m. PST |
Look here for free books link Happy reading |
| TonicNH | 31 Dec 2012 6:14 a.m. PST |
just my 2p worth but in no particular order…. - no idea where you're based so some of the following (UK) links might not be that much use ;-) Gordon Dickson's Dorsai Series (Tactics of Mistake etc) link Jerry Pournelle' Falkenberg books (The Mercenary, West of Honor etc) link John Scalzi's "Old Mans War" series (Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony) link David Drake et al "Crisis of Empire" series baenebooks.com/c-159-crisis-of-empire-series-by-david-drake.aspx Joe Haldeman – The Forever War link |
| Irish Marine | 31 Dec 2012 6:57 a.m. PST |
This was a very good series. StarFist series of course takes place in the future and revolves around a future version of a MEU(Marine Expeditionary Unit) there are 14 books in the series so they should keep you busy.
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| bsrlee | 31 Dec 2012 7:02 a.m. PST |
Check out the Baen Free Library, has full .mobi (kindle) copies of several dozen SF books for FREE, including David Weber, John Ringo etc. link Also copies of the CD's that used to come with Baen's hardbacks with even more books,including entire series, that are allowed to be shared for FREE baencd.thefifthimperium.com |
| Cyclops | 31 Dec 2012 7:10 a.m. PST |
Baen Books has the first Honor Harrington for free as well as a few others.
baen.com/library/books.asp
I've popped them on my Kindle Fire HD with no problems. See the Reader Software button on the list on the left.
This is apparently almost impossible according to many reviewers of the Kindle Fire. I can only assume they are illiterate or stupid.
edit: bsrlee beat me to it. |
 Parzival  | 31 Dec 2012 7:43 a.m. PST |
Elizabeth Moon's Vatta War series and Herrano series are both good, and should be available in e-book format.
I'll echo the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell as also solid.
I thoroughly enjoyed R.M. Meluch's Tour of the USS Merrimack series, which combines ship and marine combat with some fun plot and setting ideas.
Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series also hops around from space to ground combat and are good reads.
I did enjoy John Ringo's Troy Rising series. It's very near future, with a twist (in fact, it's clearly meant to be the beginnings of Howard Taylor's Schlockiverse from the Schlock Mercenary web comic… which is itself a very good SF military series, which you could read on a Kindle, I believe— schlockmercenary.com). He does get technical on the science/engineering side in places, but with giant solar space lasers, a poor-man's Death Star made from an inflated, hollowed-out asteroid, and an interstellar war started over a breakfast condiment, what do you really care?  |
| Caesar | 31 Dec 2012 9:29 a.m. PST |
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| ordinarybass | 31 Dec 2012 9:36 a.m. PST |
Note that the BAEN free cd link has every Honor Harrington novel (and the side plot novels) except for the most recent 1 or 2 for Free! I read through almost the entire series (I had dead tree copies of a few) via Kindle this way. |
| Cadian 7th | 31 Dec 2012 10:15 a.m. PST |
I would also recommend "the Lost Fleet". The "Death's Heads" series is really good too. Written by David Gunn I think 3-4 books are available now and they center around an antihero. I got them on my nook, so you should have no problems finding them for the kindle!  |
 JammerMan | 31 Dec 2012 12:00 p.m. PST |
Harrington series is good, Almost anything by Drake and I like the Legion of the Damned by William C. Dietz. It is futurist FFL like, with lots of ground and space combat. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 31 Dec 2012 2:14 p.m. PST |
glen cook's Stars End trilogy is quite good. |
| jgawne | 31 Dec 2012 2:29 p.m. PST |
check out 'The Chronicles of Old Guy' and it's follow up 'Space Battleship Scharnhorst and the Library of Doom.' It is not as silly as it sounds, and while there is great fighting, they tend to try and avoid getting into combat. |
| capncarp | 31 Dec 2012 4:20 p.m. PST |
Honor Harrington is not a series, it is an addiction. tAKE CARE lest you become ensnared! |
| I didnt do it | 01 Jan 2013 5:59 a.m. PST |
Thank you guys for all your useful information. Just downloaded the first book of Honor Harrington, On Basilisk Station. Starfist seems interesting too. |
| brass1 | 01 Jan 2013 8:50 a.m. PST |
Robert Frezza's trilogy about the 1/35th Imperial Infantry (Rifles)- A Small Colonial War, Fire In A Faraway Place, and Cain's Land. Walter Jon Williams' "Dread Empire's Fall" books – The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War. LT |
