[geeks] scifi and TANKS

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

Feintuch started out well, except that the series inevitably reminded me
of the Piers Anthony Tyrant series. Same lugubrious tone, same generally
insecure lead character. My tastes may be simplistic, but I find that
aura of insecurity somewhat boring after a while.

Simon R. Greene has an interesting SF series called the Deathstalker
Sage; it's a little tongue in cheek at times, but never as broad as Retief.
Interesting stories. His Hawk and Fisher fantasy stuff is OK, too.

Aside from purely military-related science fiction, I really liked
most of Mike Resnick's books. My personal favorites are
Walpurgis III, Santiago, the Dark Lady, and Ivory. Avoid his
anothologies at all costs -- he gets stuck editing the "Alternate
whatever" series.

It's a shame; when I moved back to Miami from Puerto Rico, most of my
bookshelves got trashed and so my collection is still in packing boxes.
I'm in the process of replacing them, but real wood bookshelves are
expensive.

Dave
"TODM"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Bill Bradford
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 02:39
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] scifi and TANKS
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:34:37AM -0400, D.A. Muran-de Assereto wrote:
> > If it's just military SF in general you enjoy, try the following:
> > Any of the Falkenburg books by Jerry Pournelle (Falkenburg's Legion, for
> > example)
>
> I'll pick them up again.
>
> > 	-But avoid the Warworld series after the first one
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Joe Haldeman's military writings (although he's a little "anti-war")
>
> Ehh, read most of them.  he turned into a wuss.
>
> > For something related, but different, try Jack MCDevitt's "A
> Talent for War"
>
> Will do.
>
> The "Hope" series, the Seafort saga, by David Feintuch is pretty
> damned good,
> but went to hell after "Voices of Hope", and "Patriarch's Hope" is just a
> waste of paper.. but "Children of Hope" looks to have potential.
>
> Bill (and of course, there's always the Callahan's stuff by
> Spider Robinson;
>       I'm still waiting for _Callahan's Lady_ to be printed and
>       _Lady Slings the Booze_ to be reprinted.. _Callahan's Key_
> was *great*,
>       but confusing if you hadnt read the others first, which I
> went back and
>       did..)
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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