Like
Kingsley Amis in his later years, have you lost patience with formless literary fiction? Do you want to wallow in the warm glow of
our military blowing
enemy aliens to blobby shreds? Want well-written page turners featuring ever-so-slightly stereotypical characters?
What you need is
good old-fashioned space opera; smart military SF starting with
John Ringo and the war against the Posleen.
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| Book 1 of the Posleen war series |
In four volumes:
A Hymn Before Battle (2000),
Gust Front (2001),
When the Devil Dances (2002) and
Hell's Faire (2003) you will fight with Earth's finest against the remorseless Posleen and their nefarious galactic puppet-masters. And two of the volumes are
free on Kindle!
Then, after you emerge from the gore, it's time to hit space with
The Praxis.
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| Don't trust those Naxids! |
Walter Jon Williams wrote four volumes in the
Dread Empire's Fall series looking at the aftermath of the death of the last of the galactic overlords, the Shaa. The alien races of the Shaa's empire are soon at war and our military heroes are Lieutenant Gareth Martinez, a very-smart-but-provincial peer, and Cadet Caroline Sula, the very-smart-but-with-a-shady-past head of the Sula clan: so no stereotypes there, then.
So,
lock and load, hit dirt and enjoy!
