Ive been reading The Omega Force series and extinction series by V Larson as well as the star force series and a few other ones
Gentlemen, it's only a month 'til we have the joy to read the next installment to the Frontiers saga, so I'll just throw a few books out there.
If you have the patience for long books, like storytelling with multiple threads of characters - whose connection aren't immediately obvious - and wormholes and aliens, you might be interested in Pandora's Star, the first book of the Commonwealth Saga. A long story short:
Mankind has conquered all stars in their immediate vicinity, but not with spaceships. No, instead of traversing the sea of stars in tin cans, they used wormholes to scout and colonize planets in earth's stellar backyard. All is nice and shiny in the commonwealth with people living long, LONG happy lives thanks to genetic rejuvenation and wormhole connections from planet to planet. That is, until a certain phenomenon catches astronomers in the whole commonwealth by surprise: The sudden disappearance of a star. While sudden is a relative term in the time frame of the universe, commonwealth still sends out a ship to said star, more than 300 light years from the craddle of mankind. And the events that are due to unfold might just change the commonwealth... forever.
And after you've read that, you can read Judas Unchained - the follow-up book, with 1000+ pages. HAVE FUN!
PS: Check out Speaker for the Dead as well, the sequel to Ender's Game. I don't need to say much about that, do I?
Might I suggest "the ruins of Mars trilogy" Dylan James Quarles.
Thanks McDiel for the recommendation for Peter F. Hamilton. I have been meaning to read at least one of his books for a long time.
So here's what has been going on with me lately. Two years ago I bought a book on the Rwandan genocide through Amazon. I read it on my Android phone and my iPad, and really appreciated the story. Got my wife to download it and read it on her phone. Then my daughter read it between her kindle and her Android phone. Somewhere along the way I think I also downloaded it on my phone again after I replaced my phone.
Last month my daughter was going to do a paper for school on the Rwandan genocide, so she tries to download it on her new iPad. No go.
DRM strikes again. We had been living reasonably comfortably under Amazon's DRM system, and hadn't run into any restrictions until now. It turns out that each publisher sets their own restrictions, but typically they limit downloads to six times. What's worst about it is that it is invisible and I have no idea if I have hit the limit on any other books that I have purchased through Amazon.
The frustration of having to buy that book again in order to increase my license count just frosted me. I have stayed aware of DRM issues, and have certainly been frustrated by movie and song DRM systems for years, but I guess I was blissfully ignorant of the limitations placed on paid content through Amazon's system.
So will I change my behavior? Well, I'd have to say it depends.
For authors like Ryk, I don't see my behavior changing (except to be more careful about deleting old content off of devices). I see two reasons in my head -
#1 price - Ryk's books are sold at such a steep discount that I would make allowances to buy them again if needed.
#2 Extra content - So far at least, Ryk has managed to portray himself as "one of the guys" that just happened to make it. He provides this community for like-minded people (for free), and he has been pretty cool about chatting with his fans. There is real value there, so I don't think I would want to reduce my payments to him.
I have to say I am tempted to obtain non-DRM versions of the books I want to read, just to not have to worry about this crap. It is very frustrating as a reader with over 500 ebooks in my library.
I'm REALLY looking forward to Ryk's next episode. Anticipation is killing me.
I just finished reading a 4 book series called "Odyssey One" by Evan Currie that is pretty good. It's a very good read with a lot of space battles and such.
I'm currently re reading The Lost fleet by Jack Campbell... starting book 6 tonight. There was a new book released (Steadfast) and I needed a refresher... but I should be done in time for Ryk's next one!!!
Hugh Howey - Wool, Shift, and Dust (a trilogy of trilogies)
Jennifer Foehner Wells - Fluency
Finished re-reading Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet & Beyond The Frontier & The Lost Stars (it was weird switching between books to make sure that I was following the timeline of both the Alliance and Midway.) and now I'm back to re reading Ep.12 in the hope that in two days when I'm finished it I will be able to switch to Ep.13... but If not then... I will watch the grass start to grow again...
Just bought the kindle version of Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet book 1; looking forward to it.
Anyone know anything about Warship (Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 1) by Joshua Dalzelle?
No I have not read it yet. Really don't know much about it ether but I have seen it more then few times in the kindle store. If you try it be sure to let us know what you make of it.
I enjoyed Warship. It wasn't anything amazing, but enjoyable. I'm running dry on books to read so it's at least good enough to keep my attention. 🙂
I am just finishing this
Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara
Link: http://amzn.com/B00CW0T4HQ
Very interesting read. They start wwith a small tech advantage and parity in numbers and they end with a massive tech disadvantage and vastly outnumbered. First American air superiority makes it bad and then radar and radar guided guns seals it, no chance even if they had parity in numbers which they did not. A good read if Naval history and tech is your thing.
I've been reading the Empire Corp series by Christopher Nutall. Very good read,a mix of stories set in the same universe. The break up of the human empire & the wars that follow being the main thread running through them all. Mostly told from the perspective of a group of exiled Terran Marines.
Was just mid way through book 3 'When the bough breaks' when he announced book 9 'Never Surrender' has come out.
Now speed reading the whole series on my train commute so I can get to number 9.
Hi All,
Yeah, Mr. Nuttall Empire Corps is really good. I already read the 10th episode. There are 2 or 3 episodes that you can skip in this series as they are spin-off (read them later). Check out his site, he has many interesting books the he wrote some time ago that are really good and for free.
Another good reading, in my opinion is Tim C. Taylor. He started a 6 book series (2 are already available at Amazon) and his Universe is really interesting.
Endi Webb, Raymond Weil, Richard Tongue, Terry Mixon, Randolph Lalonde, Joshua Dalzelle, and Jay Allan are, IMO good reading too.
If you already read them, Just ask I have other authors that are quite good too and I'll be glad to share with you.
As @dahedd spoke about Mr. Nuttall, I got a question to all of you:
Why in many space operas we see royal families (with or without power)? There are so few series that the universe in the future are Democracies or Democracies like (Nuttall wrote at least one as an UN descendent). Why's that? I'm not talking about Mr. Brown's Universe, he's created a complete different Universe.
Cheers
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Dalzelle is a good author and his stories are IMHO very good. Warship is a part of a new series and I really liked it. He reminds me a lot Mr. Brown without fancy solution but with people sacrifices. I think you'll enjoy it.
