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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorYoung Miles
Lois McMaster Bujold · 592 pages
Washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for health reasons, Miles Vorkosigan uses his unorthodox leadership talents to acquire a fleet of ships and take command of a force of spaceborne mercenaries with the help of his secret alter ego, Admiral Naismith.
Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)
Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata
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
Rules of Engagement
Elizabeth Moon · 512 pages
Fisherman's Hope
David Feintuch · 496 pages
Naval Academy Commandant Nicholas Seafort is a legend to the masses, an idol to his hundreds of teen cadets. They don't see the tormented soul of a man who believes that merciless duty has led him to betray every friend he ever loved, every ideal he ever cherished. After a lifelong ordeal, Seafort needs time. Time to reflect. Time to heal. Instead he is pulled into a maelstrom of crisis, corruptio
Catalyst
S.J. Kincaid · 432 pages
"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"-- Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test.
Mercenary
Piers Anthony · 373 pages
The second of six books in the series, Bio of a Space Tyrant, chronicles Hope Hubris' years as a migrant laborer and 15-year career in the Navy, largely under his sister Spirit's guidance. One of the stranger aspects of the Navy is the Tail, a militarily administered bordello all servicemen are required to use. (Wikipedia)
The Ender Quartet Box Set
Orson Scott Card
Dragon and Soldier
Timothy Zahn · 301 pages
This series title continues the story of Jack Morgan. He fights with Draycos, trying to fend off attempts to kill the draconic race. To do this, he enlists in a mercenary army that recruits teenagers.
Cain's Last Stand
Sandy Mitchell · 409 pages
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.
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
Matthew Woodring Stover · 311 pages
When Luke Skywalker and his companions are lured to Mindor and into battle with the Black Stormtroopers, they are unaware that the confrontation is part of a plot by Lord Shadowspawn to destroy the heroes of the New Republic and to restore the Empire with himself as ruler.
Space Cadet
Robert A. Heinlein · 242 pages
A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.
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: Pirate
Mike Resnick · 336 pages
Branded as mutineers, Captain Wilson Cole and the crew of the starship Theodore Roosevelt, enter the world of piracy and find themselves ill-prepared for the likes of alien pirate Hammerhad Shark.
The Shadow of Saganami
David Weber · 857 pages
The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war. Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS *Hexapuma*, that is. *They're* being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, a
Galactic Patrol
E.E. "Doc" Smith, John Clute · 255 pages
From back cover of Jove/HBJ paperback February 1979: **terror from space** The pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Masterminded by a super-scientist, their fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol. When lensman Kim Kinnison of the Patrol found the secret Boskonian base, it was impregnable to outside a
Sten
Chris Bunch, Allan Cole · 294 pages
Hailed as a "landmark science fiction series" the Sten Series has thrilled millions of readers all over the world. Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet "delinq" to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe -- a man hailed by his billons of subjects as "The Eterna