New Author
I've found a new author to add to my favourites list. Michael Z. Williamson writes really good hard military scifi. Sort of a cross between John Ringo and David Drake. His first book is Freehold, the next is The Weapon.I think he may have co-written something with John Rongo as well. Naturally, as with the rest of the best military sci/fi, he's published by Baen's Books.
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Actually, Mike has 5 published books. The two you listed, plus Hero with John Ringo, and two action-adventure (not scifi) books, Targets of Opportunity and The Scope of Justice.
All are excellent reads, as Mike's familiarity with military matters and weapons overcomes his minor and rapidly vanishing tendancies towards preaching an ideology (a good ideology, in the main, but nonetheless...).
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Anonymous, at 03:08
I find that most of the authors I like make no secret about their idealogical tendancies, but I'm used to it. I grew up on Heinlein and C.S. Lewis. I think the key point for me is intellectual integrity. Is the author willing to look at the end product of their ideology's logical conclusion. The authors I like write books immersed in the logical conclusion of their world-view. Those I don't like pretend that human nature is other than it is.
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Chewie the furry Baen Sidhe, at 12:05
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