5/13/2023 0 Comments Downbelow station![]() ![]() Weird but entertaining SF: Jack Chalker's Quintara Marathon is a pretty oddball series (though positively pedestrian, compared to some of his other stuff: it ranks real low on the psychic bondage body modification sex slave scale), but very enjoyable. Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels are a great future history, if you're into that sort of thing. Dragon's Egg is better than his other work (IMHO) in terms of being a novel. Dense, and more surveys of exotic physics than novels, but still entertaining. I very much enjoyed it, though others are less impressed. Hard (ish) SF: Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. Some seriously good moral crises and character desperation. It is very much an homage to Forester's Hornblower books, but it handles the material well. Military SF: David Feintuch's Seafort Saga is fantastic pseudo-hard, military SF. And I'm pretty sure at least the first book ( a Hymn Before Battle) is available free in the Baen library. Military SF: John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series is good, if fairly light (in terms of prose it's a fairly dark series in terms of tone), reading. Well, we all know this is going to immediately go off track, and wander rapidly into "SF the poster liked" rather than "SF that's similar to Old Man's War," so I see no reason not to be first. ![]()
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