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Deptfordx posted:You mean Patrick O'brien's Aubrey/ Maturin, Forester wrote Hornblower. The nike revolution I think is that is really popular. A small band of professionals kill the poo poo out of a whole stadium (or stadium sized place) full of rebelling regular people.
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Omi no Kami posted:Yeah! That's the one! I can't believe you got it from my terrible half-remembered description. ^^
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Kchama posted:The Freehold books are basically Liberterian porn, through and through. There's a Let's Read on another forum, but I'm totally not gonna ever read it myself as it's far beyond my capacity to even hate-read. You gotta read the sequels! The good guys of freehold do a space 9/11 times one million to earth and are portrayed as the heroes. Nerve gas on apartment blocks, suicide nukes and even space ship kamakazi.
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Kchama posted:Sonja Hemphill overthrows Manticore, having gotten word of how Honor thought of her for the first half of the series. They find Honors emails. Or teleletters as they are called in the future.
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I just read Into the Light by David Weber and Chris Kennedy, their sequel to Out of the Dark. The one where Dracula saved earth from an alien invasion. Its bad. Like Safehold bad. 90 percent of the book is people quipping at each other in conference rooms. Incredibly smug. The earth scientists have the library of one of the newest member species of a space empire that has a 100k year history, but everyone on earth is just so much smarter and braver. Near the beginning, they are talking about how the anti-gravity drives that are used for everything have so many safety features and backups because all the aliens are so cowardly. The humans can remove all these and increase the power and reduce size by incredible amounts. Then one of the scientists mentions that there was even a part of the drives to stop them from going in reverse(turning into blackholes) and how there was nothing in the library about the drives turning into blackholes, so he just assumes its another cowardly not needed safety backup. I thought it was going to be foreshadowing for a clever twist, that after they actually fight the alien empire, one of the aliens notices this change to the standard equipment and sends out a signal/radiation/whatever, that does start making all the earth ships just self destruct. But no that would be an actual challenge and a setback. Instead near the end, a scientist figures how to use the antigravity in reverse to get unlimited free energy and also a 10x - 100x faster FTL travel. In the book they never actually fight the advanced alien empire. Instead they go and visit sentient velociraptor planet that is at like 1930's earth level technology. Here there is one twist though, maybe from Chris Kennedy. On dinosaur planet there are two big coutries one a democracy and one a monarchy. And the Monarchy turns out to be bad. That is a big change from standard David Weber. While that was going on Dracula's space ship is heading to the advanced enemy system, but he literally only gets there on the last page of the book. The end.
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