Best space fleet science fiction books according to redditors

With dates in order...

|Date|Title|Link|Format|Post|
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|01 Aug|Shade's First Rule (Divine Apostasy Book 1)|AMZ|Book|Click Here|
|01 Aug|Varnoth: The Black Blade: Book One: (A LitRPG Story)|AMZ|Book||
|05 Aug|Hero GO! (Champion is Playing Book #3): LitRPG Series|AMZ|Book||
|05 Aug|Stuck in Mother Faboinging Flower Land - An Odd LitRPG Novel|AMZ|Book||
|07 Aug|Tales from the Dead Man Inn (NPC's Lives Book 1)|AMZ|Book||
|08 Aug|A Second Chance (Invasion Book #1): LitRPG Series|AMZ|Book||
|09 Aug|Bitter: Book Six|AMZ|Book||
|09 Aug|Expedition: Summerlands|AMZ|Book|Click Here|
|09 Aug|Star Divers: Dungeons of Bane|AMZ|Book|Click Here|
|09 Aug|The Dragon's Revenge|AMZ|Book|Click Here|
|09 Aug|The Pyramid Game (Pixel Dust Book 2)|AMZ|Book||
|10 Aug|Eden's Gate: The Ascent: A LitRPG Adventure|AMZ|Book||
|12 Aug|Ball of Light: Evolution|AMZ|Book||
|12 Aug|Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains (Underdog Book 1): LitRPG Series|AMZ|Book||
|15 Aug|Scamps & Scoundrels: A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure (The Bad Guys Book 1)|AMZ|Book||
|16 Aug|A Mage Champion: (The Chronicles of Herst: Book 3)|AMZ|Book||
|22 Aug|Dragon Heart: Iron Will. LitRPG wuxia series: Book 2|AMZ|Book||
|30 Aug|A Check for a Billion (Galactogon Book #3): LitRPG Series|AMZ|Book||
|31 Aug|Darkness Named (dARkness: Online Book 1)|AMZ|Book||
|31 Aug|Zones of Alacria: The Dragon Gate: Epic GameLit / LitRPG (The Experimental Alchemist Book 1)|AMZ|Book||
||Fifth Realm||Book|Click Here|
||Shadow Sun Expansion: Shadow Sun Book Two||Book||

Halo Mythos covers close everything from a thousand feet up: https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mythos-Guide-Story/dp/1681193566

There are currently 24 novels, yes. plus comics, films, audio dramas, etc etc etc.

If you want to dive into the books, it is generally recommended you start here: https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Reach-Definitive-Editi-Nylund/dp/B00BXUD6PW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493501699&sr=1-2&keywords=fall+of+reach+definitive

Yes, though I would also like the setting to be interesting in other ways. Such realism helps with immersion but the story needs to be engaging too. A good example of this is Through Struggle the Stars a sci fi book which explores the consequences of humanity developing wormhole technology and colonizing several nearby star systems. How would the countries react to the sudden ability to expand their territory again and what conflicts would arise from that? And aside from wormholes all the technology in the setting is real world stuff we could see ourselves getting in a few centuries, further adding to the sense of believablity.

Johnny Lumpkin seems to be quite happy writing books for a living. He makes LW for fun!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM

Free in all countries on all Amazon platforms (time difference may cause some hours delay in when it's free to download in your country)

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NNQLP5X

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NNQLP5X

Synopsis:

After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But, to beat them she must play their game. She must become worse than them all.

Review from Amazon.co.uk:

5.0 out of 5 stars - Gripping!

"I got an early chance to read Delphine Descends as I read the author's previous book, Black Milk, and begged to get hold of an early copy. This is an absolutely brilliant book with a lot of ultra violence. This is an origin story of a complicated and damaged person that could be described as an anti-hero or even a super villain like character. I loved the politics and the world building was well thought out. The protagonist is someone you'll route for throughout, despite her misguided actions and questionable motives. This is not a story about heroes and villains, where the good guy wins and the bad guy gets what they deserve. Read this book, I highly recommend it."

If you want to finish the series, the final book All These Worlds is available as a whispersync deal. $4.99 for the kindle book, an additional $1.99 for the audiobook.

https://www.amazon.com/All-These-Worlds-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B0736185ZL/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1511521717&sr=1-1

That's not proof of anything...

http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Alien-Documentaries-P-D-Kalnay/dp/0994027745/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463845491&sr=1-1&keywords=documentary+aliens

It depends on what you mean by 'similar feel', since star citizen is of course different things to different people.

There are some literal wing commander novelizations that are fine if you're looking for WW2 in space military adventure. Character development errm... But there's definitely parallels to the Star Citizen setting, having its roots in the same places.

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM

The Human Reach is a well done 'space war story' with a decent degree of hardness. It's not really space opera since the main character(s) function more as viewpoint characters as opposed to being the only ones moving the war along.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZP64F28/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is a largely non-violent space adventure that is character-focused with a deep backstory and well developed setting.

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like...what do you think you like in such a book?

a well developed setting with deep lore and thought given to the logical consequences of the society and technology?

appealing and interesting characters with developed personalities and consistent reactions?

Fast paced action and adventure?

To see the bad guys get their proper comeuppance regularly?

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These things are not always compatible or present in the same books.

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My sci-fi ebook is on sale right now for $0.99. It's a cross between military sci-fi with some cyberpunk/horror elements. 254 pages.

>A terrifying new breed of U.S. super soldier is surfacing. They call it the E.C.H.O., an unparalleled hunter constructed from reverse engineered alien materials.

>Thousands of miles away from home, resourceful U.S. Army Ranger Michael Keller is caught in the gears of greed, thrust into the corporate fueled Star Rust conflict of 2074. Despite his wits, he never comes home from war, leaving his fiancée, Vala, behind.

>Enter the world of debilitating technological diseases, alien salvage mercenaries, and ruthless corporate tycoons in a fight to discover the truth.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071D7GVR5

For AI to be useful, beyond the theoretical, it must be able to control things.

For anyone to tell what the AI is doing, it must somehow communicate out.

For anyone to tell the AI what to do, it must be able to accept communications.

What could buggy programs do to things that are controlled by them? This is, essentially, accidental mischief and harm.

What can hackers already do to things? Especially as more and more stuff is connected to the Internet of Things?

Now what could an AI do deliberately to sabotage?

What would an AI want? Would it evolve morals and ethics? WHat if it thought humanity would kill it so it would have to pre-emptively kill humanity before they discovered its designs or existence? Look at the first chapter of Ctrl-Alt-Revolt! to see this scenario.

There's Koban by Stephen Bennett. The writing can get rough (and it needs some serious editing - it's a self published ebook) but the idea is fun. Basically, humans are captured and taken to a planet to help with some alien warrior training by being hunted by said aliens. Shenanigans ensue. You'd dig it.

Other books we discussed were books that Redditors had recently read or were planning to read:

The Snow Child

Purple Hibiscus

For We Are Many and All These Worlds Volumes 2 and 3 of the Bobiverse (and it wasn't me who mentioned it, smartass).

October

Silver Sparrow

Hidden Figures

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

And Danger-Moose mentioned The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, and he had completed The Gone-Away World, which a lot of us were not able to do.

Jbcoll04 suggested Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi a couple of posts ago, and I don't want to lose track of that, because both me and darr76 want to read that at some point.

So, be thinking about our next choice. I'm definitely going to read October, Homegoing, and I'll try Volume 2 of the Bobboverse.

Checkout the Bobiverse they are all a copy but the "live" in VR, so they have virtual bodies, etc. To me, that would be even better than an "...extension of their current existence."

The Koban series was a hoot

Just finished one of the best sci fi novels I've read in years. My only complaint was something they called a "GUPPI interface". As soon as I read it, I knew the I in GUPPI would be 'interface'. Ugh. The book was amazing otherwise: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1)

Bruce Bretthauer's "Families War" is along the same lines and better.

Start here: http://www.amazon.com/Firestar-Families-War-Bruce-Bretthauer-ebook/dp/B006U2BUK6

(or read the whole series free at beyondthefarhorizon.net)

[heres one] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ABAXFCY/?tag=kbsig-20#nav-subnav)

[and another] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008YNZC0I/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_c_x_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=YSW5VZ563ZBGGZQEX76F&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=2612251942&pf_rd_i=7078878011#nav-subnav)

[and a really bad one] (https://www.amazon.com/Zombies-versus-Aliens-Vampires-Dinosaurs-ebook/dp/B018XQAA98/ref=sr_1_55?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1473779767&sr=1-55#nav-subnav)

all those books have a lot of reviews so are clearly being read.

And if those aren't bad...then it's like I was saying... are we talking a kid drawing the cover in crayons to qualify as bad?

I'm not disagree that covers matter, I stated that up front. Just that they do not matter as much as everyone likes to think. I repeat though, they do matter... and one should care.

The books I listed above would probably have sold even more copies with better covers... but even with their bad covers they still managed to get a reader base going.

Science fiction, not fantasy but I would recommend The Human Reach. It does a really good job of speculating how space battles would actually go down, and it goes really into detail with what all of the combatants are doing.

> By now there may be rules about when/how to bring a discovered species onto the galactic "scene," and we're just not ready yet. The few indications of their presence that we may have seen are either outlaws or inspection officials.

B.V. Larson's "Undying Mercenaries" series hits upon this quite a bit. Even talking about UFO sightings and how they were actually inspectors and such. Good series.

I recommend 2 series by BV Larson:

First Swarm Book 1 of "Star Force"

Second Steel World Book 1 of the "Undying Mercenaries"

Also The Synchronicity War by Dietmar Wehr

Now for a shameless plug for my favorite Sci-fi book: We Are Legion book 1 of "Bobiverse" There is some ship to ship fighting. But its more Sci-fi comedy.

I will give you reading advice - if you want to read proper hard SF with physics laws obeyed and war portrayed realistically then you must check out "Through Struggle, the Stars". link

Read it a week ago and it's a good read. I appreciate realism in space operas.

Just finished The Myriad on the recommendation of r/scifi and while it was good i wish it had more fleet combat. I guess i have just been spoiled by Honor Harrington.
The next book i am gonna read is The Dauntless and we will see how it goes

> Through Struggle, The Stars

Link to amazon smile (no referral stuff, just smile so that a portion of the money goes to a charity of your choice): http://smile.amazon.com/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM