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I read through the thread and decided to go through my stacks and see if I could add anything. There's not a lot left to mention. L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield: Earth (it's Scientology-free). But everything else he wrote was utter dreck, the Mission Earth decology was torture, I don't know why I slogged through it. Timothy Zahn was mentioned, but no one mentioned that his Star Wars trilogy, beginning with Heir to the Empire, was probably the only time Star Wars books have ascended into the truly great category. Kevin J. Anderson sucks. Asimov is awesome, A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep are fantastic, and I had to give up on Peter F. Hamilton in the middle of his first trilogy, because it was horrible. Miles Vorkosigan is a dwarf. Is Dune space opera? I mean there's space, right? And superheros basically. Sounds operatic. And what's better than Dune? I don't think I saw Dune in the thread except in regards to Kevin J. Anderson's work (if you can call it that).
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I fully acknowledge and agree with most of the criticisms of the Honor Harrington books. But drat, I love reading them anyway. Same with Ringo's Troy Rising series. Ridiculous uber right wing rants, but still enjoyed the hell out of the books. I'd be happy to read non-political military sci-fi, or even liberal military sci-fi, but there doesn't seem to be much of it out there.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Scalzi's later books in the Old Man's War series deconstruct a lot of the right-wing presumptions. I will check it the Doc Savage stuff. I've read and enjoyed the Old Man's War stuff.
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