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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMidshipman's Hope
David Feintuch · 415 pages
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 319 pages
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein · 222 pages
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the
Empire
Michael R. Hicks · 310 pages
EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their
Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)
Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card · 384 pages
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who have read Ender's Game and want to know more about Bean and his background. Here is the description from the back of the book: > Welcome to Battleschool. > > Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with
Fearless
Jack Campbell · 320 pages
The Heart of Valor
Tanya Huff · 357 pages
Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr jumps at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet. It is supposed to be an easy assignment -- after all, Crucible was set up to simulate battle situations so recruits could be trained safely. But Torin's barely on-planet when someone starts blasting the training scenarios to smithereens. . .
Broken Angels
Richard K. Morgan · 400 pages
Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers,
Lines of Departure
Marko Kloos · 315 pages
Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.
Recruit
Jonathan P. Brazee · 213 pages
Natural Consequences
Elliott Kay · 496 pages
Orphan's Alliance
Robert Buettner · 308 pages
Fifteen years after the defeat of the Slugs on Bren, Jason Wander is assigned to command an invasion force to expel the Slugs from a small moon, but his mission is complicated by interplanetary conflicts, political intrigues, and the totalitarian Tressel, who will do anything to defeat the Slugs, regardless of the human cost.
The Red: First Light
Linda Nagata · 416 pages
The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie · 531 pages
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glo
War Dogs
Greg Bear · 304 pages
"They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established a beachhead
Rules of Engagement
Elizabeth Moon · 512 pages
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ying Ban Yang · 256 pages
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 463 pages
*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousan
Changer of Worlds
David Weber, Eric Flint · 396 pages
This collection of short stories has Honor Harrington as a Midshipmen. Introduces the character of Victor Cachet, Helen Ziliwiki, and her Dad. There is also the Coup against Rob Pierre in Haven.