(Part 2) Best space operas according to redditors

Thanks, it is indeed. It's the proof for the paperback printing.

It's a blend of science fiction and fantasy tropes set 40 years in the future after alien contact. We build an instant warp drive, tear open space time, causing magic, elves, dragons and other fantasy creatures to emerge. The story follow soldiers in the war between tech and sorcery.

Link for those interested

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!!!! I'm in the top 100 of military sci-fi, and 6K for books over all!!!! Thank you all so so much for your support.

This is also a cover of a pretty great book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Algebraist-Iain-M-Banks/dp/1841492299

Deathstalker?

edit: http://amzn.com/0451454359

Ignore the over the top cheesy covers. They're actually quite good, and a lot of fun.

You might also try Iron Sunrise and Singularity Sky by Charlie Stross (Another awesome scottish sf author). They're a similar sort of whimsical space-opera to bits of the Culture, although shorter^1 and less complicated.

Also, don't forget the other M. Banks, like The Algebraist


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Lighthearted space opera, like Nathan Lowell, Andrew Moriarty, Jamie McFarlane, Becky Chambers, Peter Grant. The stories often involve a young person getting their first job onboard a commercial spacecraft of some sort.

Traitor, with the pretty cover: https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-Collaborator-Book-Krista-Ball-ebook/dp/B06XCBW6H7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499271492&sr=8-1&keywords=traitor+krista+ball

I don't have a lot of reviews, mostly because I haven't put any work into promoting the series. (I will when there's another book this fall sometime). /u/lrich1024 read it, and I think she liked it. /u/the_real_js read it and cried himself to sleep (j/k).

It's on the short side, so a faster read. If you want something uplifting or funny, the Spirit Caller series is more that. It also has a couple of female friendships, and the attempts at making more.

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The Course of Empire (Course of Empire Series Book 1) by Eric Flint
1632 (Ring of Fire Series) by Eric Flint
Northworld Trilogy by David Drake
Starliner by David Drake
Star Soldiers by Adre Norton
Oath of Swords (War God Book 1) by David Weber
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber
The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington Book 2) by David Weber
The Star Agency (The Star Agency Chronicles Book 1) by R.E. Weber
The Last Praetorian (The Redemption Trilogy Book 1) by Mike Smith
Hard Duty: Merkiaari Wars Book 1 by Mark E. Cooper
The Synchronicity War Part 1 by Dietmar Wehr
Dark Space by Jasper T. Scott
The Tank Lords by David Drake
Redliners by David Drake
A Desert Called Peace (Carrera Series Book 1) by Tom Kratman
Gunship by John Davis
With the Lightnings (Lt. Leary Book 1) by David Drake
Tales of Honor #1 by Matt Hawkins and Jung-Geun Yoon
The Fringe Worlds: (The Human Chronicles Saga Book #1) by T.R. Harris
Freehold (Freehold Series Book 1) by Michael Z. Williamson
The Last Roman (The Praetorian Series Book 1) by Edward Crichton
The Sea Hag by David Drake
Forbidden The Stars (The Interstellar Age Book 1) by Valmore Daniels
FCBD 2015: Tales of Honor by Matt Hawkins and Linda Sejic
The Philosophical Strangler (Joe's World Book 1) by Eric Flint
The Creatures of Man by Howard L. Myers
In the Heart of Darkness (Belisarius Saga Book 2) by Eric Flint
Northworld Trilogy by David Drake
Starliner by David Drake

This is Charles Stross. One of his most famous books (which won many notable awards both in and out of the sci-fi community) was about a sexbot in a world after all humans have died out, including tons of M-rated scenes including rape.

I'm pretty sure porn and sexuality is going to feature a lot in the book.

I released my second book and it's been selling surprisingly well. Someday I'm going to need to start marketing more actively, but I think I'll wait until the third book is out.

As I understand it, authors generally have very little control over what the publishers decide to put on the cover. Charlie Stross explained this at length after people noticed the atrocious cover art on the US edition of Saturn's Children.

my absolute favourite is the star guard / star rangers duology. the first book takes place in a universe where a developed alien federation will only allow humanity out into the stars as mercenaries. also the collected edition is free for kindle.

It's a fantastic novel by a great author.

I'm reluctantly bringing up Saturn's Children by Charles Stross. I like Stross but wasn't a fan of this book. He wrote this as an homage to Robert Heinlein's later works (like Friday).

You also might want to check out When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold. Harlie isn't a robot, he's an artificial intelligence (the first one), and there are some philosophical aspects in the novel.

Starliner by David Drake is free up on the Kindle store right now. It's about commercial travel on the space equivalent to ocean liners from the transatlantic period of Earth's history. So kind of a more... staged down version of a Carnival cruise or something, using labor from distant mining worlds, etc. A lot of it runs in parallel with IAMAs I have read from people who work on the real deal in the current era. The plot follows a young man who just became an officer on board and tends to find himself in trouble. It's not the best novel I've read, but it is about as on topic as it can get.

Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are definitely worth a read. They're a two book series that start off with the discovery that two stars simultaneously disappear, and slowly escalate from there when humans try and find out what has happened.

Pandora's Star:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandoras-Star-Commonwealth-Saga-1/dp/0330518917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407326848&sr=8-1&keywords=pandoras+star

Judas Unchained:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judas-Unchained-Commonwealth-Peter-Hamilton/dp/0330518909/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1407326848&sr=8-2&keywords=pandoras+star

Have you read Ship of the Line by Diane Carey (1999)? It focuses on the Bozeman crew before and after they travel through time. Amazon.com link

I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I originally listened to the audiobook while driving across the US back in 2003, and learned what "abridged" meant.

Seek out this book. It was a fantastic read.

Ship of the Line (Star Trek Next Generation (Unnumbered)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671009257/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qGVozbXR920TA

Amazon Canada link - https://www.amazon.ca/Starfade-Cyberpunk-Novella-Blender-universe-ebook/dp/B07NPB2GY9/

The Terran Representative has a few furries in it, such as a bird like race called the Vantagax. Its not a furry fiction per say, but it is still a good read.

> A lone human is awoken from cryo-stasis by an alien race: the Vantagax. Earth and the rest of the Sol System is destroyed and barren, and humans have disappeared from the galaxy. The Vantagax want to know where all the people have gone, and they won't accept ignorance. What is one to do when they're abducted by an alien race and taken to the stars?

Some books that provide models of exceptionally clear writing might help. I thought it might be more fun and more useful if I chose ones that are free and related to SF, so -

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Soldiers-Andre-Norton-ebook/dp/B00ARPJA7W

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226

(Modern SF actually derives from Kim by way of "With The Nigh Mail" and "Easy As ABC" - which you can also find on G'berg)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32256

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64486

Kindle je možda najkorisniji uređaj kojeg posjedujem. Uvijek je sa mnom, nikad mi nije dosadno u autobusu ili dok čekam frenda u kafiću. Preporučam 1000 puta.

Čak i ako ne čitaš puno, možda počneš kad ti stigne kindle. A to što si siromah ne smeta, jer eBookova ima po smješnim cijenama. Neki su čak i besplatni, kao ovaj briljantni SF: https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-War-Part-1-ebook/dp/B00EZB3WJQ

Jedina kvaka je - nema puno naslova na hrvatskom, tako da sve čitaš na engleskom u glavnom. Ti vidi koliko te to smeta. S druge strane, imaju ugrađeni riječnik, pa je vrlo lagano nabrzaka provjeriti značenje neke riječi.

Moj je kindle jadan pao u more pred mjesec dana i sad nije u funkciji, može link na taj paperwhite?

I would really suggest the series ,Old Man's War. I'm not very good with summaries but it is a fantastic series if you are into sci-fi. Essentially elderly people's minds are transferred to new bio-enhanced bodies to fight humanities enemies. Sounds really generic but really well done in my opinion.

If you are into more of a military recommendation and less of a sci-fi one I would suggest The Weapon

It was also mentioned but Starship Trooper is a classic book and one of the inspirations I had for military service.

Saturn's Children by Stross has Androids living on Venus and Mars, but all the humans have died.

Here is the desktop version of OP's link

>please do send me a notice when you do.

The Terran Representative is now on Kindle Unlimited.

my favorite of all time. check out a book called "Light" by M. John Harrison. I'm about 100 pages in so far.

http://www.amazon.com/Light-M-John-Harrison/dp/0553587331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253694587&sr=1-1

Not sure why there are negative reviews

https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Line-Star-Generation-Unnumbered/dp/0671009257

I liked the audiobook version as well. It was read by Gates McFadden.

I like your taste in books

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Edit: I just realized how retarded I am and that you were looking for 2016 books. Sorry about that. These are all relatively new though, and great reads.

I see you read Dalzelle's Black fleet trilogy. For something similar but with better tactics, an interesting perspective on differences in technology advancement, and a more expeditionary style conflict, including actual interactions with alien beings, try Evan Currie's Odyssey One series.

Another good Mil-Scifi is Michael Hicks In Her Name series. I've linked the last of the books chronologically but they were the first published and how I read them; so I feel its a good introduction to the series. It focuses on the main character who plays a central role in the human's conflict with a race of blue skinned, Amazonian-like warriors who prefer close quarters combat despite technological superiority(sounds cheesy I know, but the character and culture development is very well done). The middle trilogy is much more military oriented but focuses less on open space naval battles and more on ground battles across multiple planets. The "first," newest trilogy, chronicles the establishment of the Empire that humans are at war with (I haven't read this one yet). The series has some elements of science fantasy, which is all I can say without giving away too much.

My most recent favorite and I can't recommend enough is Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy. It's kind of hard to pin down this one into a specific genre. It seems like it would be YA, but it is not. It has eugenics, enhanced humans, an interesting caste system, space battles, ground battles, high technology, low technology, decent character development, and just a ton of other elements. It's sort of Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games meets Harry Potter meets Brave New World meets Roman history in space. It is very well told and is a New York Times best seller for good reason.

Ready Player One
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B005CVWWJY/

the Martian (Ridley Scott making a film out of this)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0091956137

Leviathan Awakes (picked up for a TV series now)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leviathan-Wakes-Book-1-Expanse/dp/1841499897

Pandoras Star (1000 pages!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandoras-Star-Commonwealth-Saga-1/dp/0330518917

Lines of Departure
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lines-Departure-Frontlines-Book-2/dp/1477817409

Old Man's War
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B004M8S6FC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418808469&sr=1-1&keywords=old+mans+war

I had "Earth alone suggested to me while I was in the military myself and it wasn't too bad. The beginning of book one is absolutely horrible though. It probably was written early on by the author and then finished years later. The rest while not exactly high art was entertaining to me and in some parts reminded me strongly of Starship Troopers.

I'm very interested in your copies of Your Inner Fish, Anatomy of an Epidemic, and Evil Genes. I would love to be able to take all three off your hands. I have several books that I can offer you in exchange, all of which I've read and highly recommend! What I have that might match your interests are:

• Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Armand Leroi
  
  
• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
  
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
  
  
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
  
  
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  
• I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
  
  And seeing that you had a Steve Berry novel up for trade, I also have these two excellent Brad Meltzer thriller novels:
  
  
• The Book of Fate, Brad Meltzer
  
  
• The Millionaires, Brad Meltzer
  
  If any of my books peak your interests, I'd love to make a trade!

From Ephemerality's comment on https://thegam3.com/2017/08/11/the-abyss-5-10/

>For those wondering about the exact release date for the ebook, it’s next Tuesday, August 15! You can pre-order it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074R284RB/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1502494005&sr=8-5&keywords=earth%27s+gambit The audio book should be out before the holidays, I’ll update when I have an accurate release date.

I feel like I'm looking in a mirror here. Can I verify that you're not me, and that I didn't make a reddit account and posted this in my sleep?

Anyways, if you aren't me, then we have extraordinarily similar tastes. In that case, I would recommend one of my favorite books of all time that you didn't list: Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton.

I've been listening to books this way for about 3 years and I have noticed that I am a very fast speaker now. I'm not sure if it's releated but it could be.

Also, always look for whispersync books. You can almost always get the audible version for crazy cheap.
Example:
http://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Station-Honor-Harrington-Book-ebook/dp/B00ARPJBS0/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1452542369&sr=8-6
I can't see the audiobook price because I already have it but I bet the combination is only a few dollars for a great audiobook/ebook
http://www.amazon.com/Starliner-David-Drake-ebook/dp/B00ARPEAU4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1452542467&sr=1-8
this audiobook is only 1.99 vs 14.95 when buying it straight up.

My favorite Sci-Fi saga is Deathstalker by Simon R. Green, and it has an amazing audio production where everyone is voiced by different voices, and there is music and sound effects instead of just a single narrator doing all the voices. It is quite long though, much longer than most of the series' I've been through.

it's covered in this book http://www.amazon.com/Ship-Line-Star-Generation-Unnumbered/dp/0671009257/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344123184&sr=1-14&keywords=star+trek+ship

Your covers are professional looking so they aren't bad in that regard. The issue is that they are not to market. The one with the gold bars actually reminds me of The Gam3 by Cosimo Yap, a LitRPG novel.

Unintended Consequences : Book One of the Powers Come Hard series
>Three friends get a little more than they bargained for when an ancient lamp shows up on their desk. Now due to Liz and her big mouth, they are humanities last chance at survival, as long as they can find a way to activate their own powers.
>
>The Powers Come Hard series is a story of super powers, super villains, three reluctant Heroes, and the extreme measures they must go through to protect the world from a Demigods cruel joke.

The title, cover and blurb all point to this being a YA novel, except for that tiny warning at the end about this being 18+ with graphic sex. That is the part of your story you need to be advertising and not the genie's lamp or the bars of gold. (Put an attractive woman on the cover instead). You can certainly mention these things, but they are not the main draw.

>Book two of the Powers Come Hard series.
>
>Three friends working at a museum come across a lamp, and after a little rubbing find it contains an actual Genie. unfortunately, he's also an asshole.
>
>The world has been cursed due to Liz's big mouth, and Jeff's desire for superpowers. Now there are a thousand bad guys out there with powers of their own and the lengths the three unfortunate heroes must go through to stop them is a bit much. Liz and the gang decide they need to find out exactly what the powers they have been granted are, and the best way to activate them.

Again, there is almost nothing in your advertising for book 2 to indicate that this is supposed to be erotic. It sounds like a fun, young adult, superhero book.

"The Algebraist" by Iain M. Banks.

Banks is better known by the Culture series. The most accessible book in the series may be "The Player of Games" and others have mentioned "Consider Phlebas". I did not like "Matter" very much but YMMV.

edit: I usually link to the Amazon's page because it is a quite good place to see reviews and get a general idea about if the book is any good. As others have said it is a good idea to get the book from a library.

I've read all these books, and they were decent reads. However, I should mention some positives and negatives about the series.

PROS:

• The books are fairly well written.
  
  
• The plot line at least makes some decent sense.
  
  
• Some of the technology and tactics make sense as well, and the neat thing is the concept of light delay in astronomical terms in relation to combat positioning and fleet tactics. This is really the meat and bones of the books and is usually the most interesting to read (in my opinion anyways)
  
  CONS:
  
  
• There is a lot of deus ex machina with the fleet fights.
  
  
• There is a convenient hand waving of why the main character is so good at what he does. It's literally because everyone else is so terrible.
  
  
• The romantic subplots seemed a bit forced, and constantly talking about 'honor' and crap seems really silly in context of a fight to return home.
  
  OVERALL:
  
  I'd definitely check these out if you're jonesing for some science fiction, but there are definitely better books out there if you're looking for something amazing to read.
  
  OTHER SERIES / BOOKS RECOMMENDATIONS:
  
  Into the Black - EDIT: Had book 4 listed here instead of book one, fixed
  
  Lines of Departure
  
  Old Man's War

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Think it might be a reference to this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1841492299/ref=mp_s_a_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1520692657&sr=8-17&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=iain+m.+banks&dpPl=1&dpID=51Sc-mtTrBL&ref=plSrch

The Forever War was a great novel. Probably my favorite after the original Dune trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312536631/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485369920&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=forever+war&dpPl=1&dpID=51Ki76Qf64L&ref=plSrch

The Synchronicity War was a great series and the kindle books are fairly cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-War-Part-1-ebook/dp/B00EZB3WJQ

Man of War trilogy has a Star Trek type feel to it and was enjoyable. A lot of naval military type stuff. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1477848894/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1485370046&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=man+of+war+series&dpPl=1&dpID=51fDKxQn%2B-L&ref=plSrch

Could the second book be Deathstalker by Simon Green?

In Her Name

Light by M. John Harrison.

John Ringo's Troy Rising trilogy, starting with Live Free or Die. Harder-than-average sci-fi, with an enjoyable military bent similar to OMW.

Mick Farren - The DNA Cowboys

Its got is all, fellowship, drugs, adventure, sex and buckets of general weirdness. Kind of DarkTowerish.


Allan Weisbecker - Cosmic Banditos

I had lots of awkward moments in public, trying (and failing) to stifle laughs. Great stuff. Worth it for the intro alone.


M. John Harrison - Light

This novel is unlike anything else I have read. That Harrison squeezes three stories in to this slim volume is a work of wonder.


John C. Wright - The Golden Age

If you like the Culture Novels, you will probably really like this.


Jeff VanderMeer - Veniss Underground

Disturbing and dark. Still haunts me.

Commonwealth Saga from the master of space opera Peter F. Hamilton!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pandoras-Star-Commonwealth-Saga-1/dp/0330518917

The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star . . . vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply "disappears. Since the location is too distant to reach by wormhole, a faster-than-light starship, the "Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat.

Spoiler alert: shit hits the fan hence the 3 hugemungus books!

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TRAITOR by Krista D. Ball (/u/KristaDBall)

>Seven years ago, Rebecca St. Martin took the coward’s path to save her skin. She has lived with that decision, eking out a life as an indentured servant on a space station far from home. Only now, fate has decided to give Rebecca another chance. A ghost from her past plans to execute a daring rescue from the prison bowels of the station Rebecca now works.

> Rebecca has to face the same decision she made all those years ago. Could she watch her friends be murdered? Or could she, just for once, be a hero?

Our story starts with the brutal murder of our decoy protagonists when they try to procure vital supplies for their people. Afterwards their murderers, three teenagers. claim their spaceship as their own which they use to to hunt down and kill even more disenfranchised people who are just trying to make a living outside the borders of the oppressive Earth regimes.

“Rookie Privateer ” by Jamie McFarland. It’s absolutely amazing AND book one is available for free! :)

my favorite author is John Ringo. He ... is not everybody's cup of tea (talk to me first before reading his Ghost series) but has a good mix of some fantasy, some sci fi, some just regular action.

He combines well researched action with humor.

I would suggest starting with his Troy Rising series
https://www.amazon.com/Live-Free-Troy-Rising-Book-ebook/dp/B00APAH7T2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1493820928&sr=8-3&keywords=live+free+or+die

he also has a good zombie apocalypse series.

The first one that popped into mind was Ship of the Line but it's been a while since I read it, so not sure if it will meet your requirements.

Star Soldiers by Andre Norton is pretty good. The Kindle edition is also free!

Is this Traitor? It's been on my list, but by that description, I will get it now.

Weird - it sends me to here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQNGVP4

which is priced at $6.94.

https://www.amazon.com/Starliner-David-Drake-ebook/dp/B00ARPEAU4/

comes up for me as free.

That's in an incognito browser window, so it's not tied to my Amazon account.

Books that changed the way I look at things, and thus changed my life:

Light by M. John Harrison Helped me understand that my feelings of smallness and impotence were pointless. In the greater scheme of things there is always two things: Someone better-off than you, and Someone worse-off than you. Whining about it helps no one.

Crank by Ellen Hopkins Helped me understand my mother's drug abuse. Not condone it of course, but understand it. Within six months of me reading this book, my Mother actually started to get clean. Maybe she found it in my room or something.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Through this I learned the true power of fiction. This book makes movies look bad. It is the biggest must-read on my list.

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by CHristopher Hadnagy taught me how better to interpret my actions and the actions of others, and in general made me a more observant person. Barring the manipulative side of things, (which it helps you notice as other people do it or you do subconsciously) it helps you understand social interaction on a deeper level than just words.

A Child's First Book of Virtues by Emily Hunter

I'd have to say that this was one of the single most important books of my childhood. It taught me all the important bits. This book was gifted to me right after I learned to read, and I am quite frankly a better person because of it. It helped form the model by which I judged my own character.

And of course a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Compton's interactive encyclopedia.

Buh I like reading.

If anyone likes these books, you may also like the Deathstalker series.

• Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish Universe books: Worlds of Exile and Illusion, The Word for World is Forest, and The Left Hand of Darkness
  
• Iain M Banks' Culture Series
  
• Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
  
• Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
  
• Charles Stross' Singularity books
  
• Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, and Have Space Suit, Will Travel
  
• Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward and Spares
  
• Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon
  
• William Gibson's Neuromancer
  
• Larry Niven's Ringworld and The Mote in God's Eye
  
• Frank Herbert's Dune series
  
• John Scalzi's Old Man's War series

its the first book in her name trilogy

http://www.amazon.com/In-Her-Name-Redemption-ebook/dp/B001A7X0BI

Into the Black by Evan Currie

The Frontier Saga (a giant collection of novellas, each an 'episode'), by Ryk Brown

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Yeah I read a lot of Fantasy and Sci-fi. Umm, if he likes more Military Scifi I would recommend:

• Dauntless It's the first in a really cool space/naval series about a fleet of spaceships far from home and fighting through enemy territory to get home. All the while the Fleet Commander is acclimating to being 100 years in his own future (without "timetravel")
  
  
• Starship Troopers Is a classic scifi by Heinlein and has very little to do with the movies. Similar war ideas, giant bugs, but totally different feel. No cheesyness.
  
  
• Ender's Game of course is a classic Scifi book. Young boy growing up in a Battle School where they train kids to be soldiers. Very deep, very perspective changing.
  
  
• Stranger in a Strange Land Is another Heinlein book. A human boy grows up being raised by an alien Martian race on Mars. Brought back to Earth as an adult human, but again raised and taught everything by Martians. Has no concept of earth, our beliefs, our morals, our actions, anything. An amazing story that gives a great perspective for a WASP like me to see what it's like to integrate into a society where nobody is like you, and you understand nothing.
  
  If he likes "high fantasy" (elves, wizards, knights, etc) then let me know and I throw out a few of those too.
  
  EDIT: Also I'll plug Audbile.com here because these all also have great Audiobooks with GREAT narrators and I love listening to my books on my Android phone all the time. And of course Amazon owns Audible! discounts for buying the audiobook and the kindle book (often cheaper than outright buying the audiobook!)

Deathstalker series by Simon R Green. Space Opera as you can get. Swords, Empaths, lasers guns, mutants, space battles, Rouge AI, a bitchy Emperor, Aristocracy, slaves, gladiators.

Crap, now I have to go read it again.

You're not kidding too terribly much, as there's even fewer notable releases than last week for the release week ending Tuesday, Nov. 22, but! a few are long, eagerly-awaited ones for me:

• Moonglow: A Novel By Michael Chabon, Narrated By George Newbern -- "In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies."
  
  
• Signal to Noise By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Narrated By Ana Bayat for Audible -- YES! I've been waiting for this one to come to audio for over a year and it's finally dropped this week: "Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mix tape. Meche, awkward and 15, has two equally unhip friends - Sebastian and Daniela - and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. The three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love. Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns alone for her estranged father's funeral. It's hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, reviving memories from a childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? Is there any magic left?" And a moderately good Whispersync deal at $5.38 Kindle plus $1.99 upgrade.
  
  
• Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection By Brandon Sanderson, Narrated By Michael Kramer, Kate Reading -- "An all-new Stormlight Archive novella is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection includes eight works in all. The first seven are "The Hope of Elantris" (Elantris), "The Eleventh Metal" (Mistborn), "The Emperor's Soul" (Elantris), "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes 28 through 30" (Mistborn), "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" (Threnody), "Sixth of Dusk" (First of the Sun), and "Mistborn: Secret History" (Mistborn)."
  
  
• Into the Out Of By Alan Dean Foster, Narrated By Joel Richards for Dreamscape -- I've almost lost keeping track of Dreamscape, which does some great work, here a backlist (1999) novel by Alan Dean Foster: "Earth is being invaded by the shetani - spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak, and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it."
  
  
• Conclave: A Novel By Robert Harris, Narrated By Roy McMillan -- "The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel and gives us his most ambitious, pause-resisting thriller yet - where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth."
  
  
• The Spy: A Novel By Paulo Coelho, Narrated By Hillary Huber, Paul Boehmer -- "In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First World War, unfolds as a fascinating first-person narrative of self-creation and bravery."
  
  INDIE PICKS:
  
  
• Dragon of the Stars By Alex J. Cavanaugh, Narrated By Michael Burnette -- "The future is set for Lt. Commander Aden Pendar, son of a Hyrathian Duke. Poised to secure his own command and marriage to the queen's daughter, he'll stop at nothing to achieve his goals. But when the Alliance denies Hyrath's claim on the planet of Kavil and declares war on their world, Aden finds his plans in disarray. Entrenched in battle and told he won't make captain, Aden's world begins to collapse. How will he salvage his career and future during Hyrath's darkest hour?"
  
  
• Earth Alone: Earthrise, Book 1 By Daniel Arenson, Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer for Audible -- No, Audible isn't "indie" but Arenson's series is, self-published and often free (or dirt cheap) in Kindle and now in audio with a miniscule ($1.99) Whispersync add-on price. "They came from deep space. They came to destroy us. Fifty years ago bloodthirsty aliens devastated the Earth. Most of humanity perished. We fell into darkness. But now we rise from the ashes. Now we fight back." Earth Lost: Earthrise, Book 2 and Earth Rising: Earthrise, Book 3 are also both out this week, and Whispersync enabled.
  
  SERIES BOOKS:
  
  
• The Operator: The Peri Reed Chronicles, Book 2 By Kim Harrison, Narrated By January LaVoy -- Continuing the new Detroit-based sf thriller series which began with The Drafter: "On-the-run ex-agent Peri Reed returns bigger and bolder than ever in this second highly anticipated installment in New York Times best-selling author Kim Harrison's new suspense trilogy, The Peri Reed Chronicles."
  
  
• Apes and Angels: The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 3 By Ben Bova, Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki (Tor Books, Blackstone Publishing) -- "Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the last installment in the Star Quest Trilogy."
  
  
• The Hollow Hills: The Arthurian Saga, Book 2 By Mary Stewart, Narrated By Derek Perkins
  
  
• Timecaster Supersymmetry By J. A. Konrath, Narrated By Patrick Lawlor
  
  
• The Rider: Galactic Football League Novellas, Book 4 By Scott Sigler, Paul E. Cooley, Narrated By Scott Sigler
  
  
• Cross the Line: Alex Cross, Book 24 By James Patterson, Narrated By Ryan Vincent Anderson, Pete Bradbury

Not free however.
http://www.amazon.com/In-Her-Name-Redemption-ebook/dp/B001A7X0BI

I mostly get audio books.

The books this year.

• 7 Halo books
  
• 1 mass effect book
  
• 5 Star Force books
  
• Ready Player One
  
• For The Win & The Makers by Cory Doctorow
  
• Into the Black: Odyssey One
  
• Redshirts
  
• The Black cloud by Fred Hoyle
  
• City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1)