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Just finished David Weber's newest book and I really enjoyed it 8/10
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There is nothing about this that doesn't look like the work of a 12-year-old writing their first fic on Wattpad. Grammatical errors, impossibly basic bitch cover art, and a plotline that sounds like something a kid would make up while playing with random junk they found on a rainy afternoon. Whoever hired her to run a writer's symposium should have committed seppuku in disgrace.
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Glen Cook is really good. The Black Company is military fantasy, while Passage at Arms is submarines in space (starts off slow but really picks up).
Forgotten ruin series by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole is good. About a group of Army rangers kicking ass in a DND fantasy world. First book is nothing but orcs getting gunned down with machine guns and blown up with rockets.
The late David Drake was a very good writer of military sci-fi. He's best known for his Hammer's Slammers stories, about a bunch of mercenary tankers in the future with hover tanks and lasers. The one work of his that stands out to me, however, is ranks of bronze. Which is about a lost roman legion being employed to fight aliens on far worlds.
And of course there is always the grand classic of mil-sf: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series. Xenophon's Anabasis in the distant future with an interesting cast of characters and an author who put a decent amount of thought into the physics of ship-to-ship fighting in space. He's got a few other series that I've heard good things about.
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I can always go for another xenophon retelling.
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Most anything written by Jerry Pournelle is a classic. I also recommend H. Beam Piper's works, though mostly his stuff is more on the SF than on the military side.
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Haven't seen it mentioned yet, But as a one-off Michael Z. Williamson's "A long time until now" was a pretty good read.
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Excellent suggestions from other commenters, but I'll take the opportunity to shill franchise genre fiction too. Halo books written up to the Kilo 5 trilogy, inclusive if you don't mind Traviss too much and also some abhorrent 343i meddling, Battletech stuff before whatever your cutoff for good Battletech is (it's the jihad for me), lots of Star Wars stuff but especially the Thrawn trilogy and the X-Wing series up till the big timeskip.
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Gordon R. Dickson was another big name in that subgenre. IIRC, his stuff also contributed to the boom of the genre alongside Heinlein. Should be easy to find Dickson's works secondhand too.
Anyways as for military SF/Fantasy, much of the classics have been listed. Would you be open to Space Opera too?
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yeah lay it on me my too read pile is now less than a mile long and I'm worried ill run out soon
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Dragon Con is a drunken degeneracy style con now and doesnt really care too much about the nerd shit.
Sci Fi literature fans are autistic enough to realize this and stop engaging.
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fuckit.
E. E. Smith's Lensmen, Poul Anderson's SF in general, and Jack Vance's Demon Princes.
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The more Delaney I read, the more based he becomes. On the one hand he has a story about getting a sex change to become the oneitis e-girl the protag is simping for and still being miserable, on the other hand, he openly contextualizes a lot of shit about fags that no one wants to talk about. Total degenerate, but brilliant at bringing problems to the fore in a way that makes them useful. I'd put him up there with Freud and Foucault in being absolutely right, just not in the way it's usually interpreted.
Hal Duncan also has some moments. He's also very youth focused, albeit in a different way. I can't decide if his work was too hard gay to fit the current push in the industry and get attention, Vellum was a disappointment after Ink, or he got quietly cancelled for showcasing pederasty and went to near self pub because of that. Everything about his Scruffians series makes me not want to read it.
Hal Duncan also has some moments. He's also very youth focused, albeit in a different way. I can't decide if his work was too hard gay to fit the current push in the industry and get attention, Vellum was a disappointment after Ink, or he got quietly cancelled for showcasing pederasty and went to near self pub because of that. Everything about his Scruffians series makes me not want to read it.
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I could always reread lensmen that was a super kino book series
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I really enjoyed Tanya Huff's Valor series. The protagonist is a space marine. the books standalone, but also build on each other and if you can read them in order, that helps.
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John Ringo however be aware he has never actually finished a series.
This is why I stopped going. Plus it got so expensive.
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