| Tango01 | 08 Jun 2019 9:39 p.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink  | 09 Jun 2019 3:45 a.m. PST |
Well, I can take Drew Williams off my list of SF writers to check out. No Doc Smith, no David Drake, no David Weber, but lots of moving pictures. Something tells me Heinlein wouldn't have made the list without a movie. |
| Katzbalger | 09 Jun 2019 4:42 p.m. PST |
Agree with the other Robert--definitely told me not to bother with Drew Williams. Last Jedi. OMFG. Rob |
| joedog | 09 Jun 2019 5:23 p.m. PST |
While Starship Troopers is one of the greatest science fiction combat books, it doesn't exactly deal with space combat. Two I'd add in are: Space combat as "age of sail" – Drake's "Lt Leary" series. James White (most famous for the space hospital "Sector General" series) has some good space combat short stories – as well as one Sector General story/novel where the hospital is under attack. |
| robert piepenbrink | 09 Jun 2019 5:58 p.m. PST |
Drake especially. I keep going back to the battle at the end of Lt. Leary Commanding even when I don't re-read the whole book--Leary and the Princesss Cecille playing with an Alliance battlewagon. But I wouldn't quite call it "Age of Sail." I gather some of the Honor Harrington books are much closer. |
| Katzbalger | 10 Jun 2019 2:38 a.m. PST |
In the combat aspects, the Lt. Leary books are more like late Victorian era warfare as predicted by some of the experts at the time. The overall situations are based upon some ancient Roman stuff, for the most part, I believe. Rob |
| Huscarle | 11 Jun 2019 1:13 p.m. PST |
I would add in "Insurrection" by David Weber & Steve White. I seem to recollect "We All Died at Breakaway Station" was a cracking space battle & good read, but its been many years since I've read it. |
| CeruLucifus | 11 Jun 2019 7:43 p.m. PST |
Top 5 is too short a list, even without stacking it with TV shows and movies. Walter Jon Williams' Dread Empire's Fall trilogy has several space battles, all pretty good. And then there's Glen Cook's The Dragon Never Sleeps, the best space opera novel ever written. The battle where the trap breaks its jaws on three Guardships, with one escaping, and the running pursuit that follows, is epic stuff. |
 javelin98 | 11 Jun 2019 8:06 p.m. PST |
The bombing run in Last Jedi? Seriously? The Death Star battle in Return of the Jedi was way better. |
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