OT: Books, Books, Books.

[Sir Whiskers]

Though I never got hooked by the Honor Harrington series, I found the Starfire books by Weber and White (Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and The Shiva Option) to be great fun. The characters are a bit two-dimensional, but the space battles are great. As someone else said, these books never fail to get me in the mood to play SE4.

BTW, a couple years ago a poster talked about creating a Starfire mod for SE4 - does anyone know if this was ever done?

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Deathstalker:
Just bought Cordelia's Honor/Young Miles by Bujold and Drakes 'With the Lightning'. Hope they will quench my thirst for military Sci-Fi as I'm almost done my 2nd read thru the Honor series.

ohh, you will like Bujold's Miles series, damn, I just LOVE reading

[Narratio]

Originally posted by Sir Whiskers:
BTW, a couple years ago a poster talked about creating a Starfire mod for SE4 - does anyone know if this was ever done?

Now this is truly Ouruborous! Starfire begat Space Empires begats SE4G - Starfire! And I thought this year would lack wierdness!

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Taera:
hm. my take on "A Book That Makes Me Wanna Play SE" was Allan Dean Foster's Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy. I recommend it to anyone.

Hmm, I don't recall those. I read all of the Flinx books, but the Commonwealth was already in existence by then, IIRC. Do you know the titles of this "Founding" trilogy?

SpaceBadger

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Deathstalker:
Just bought Cordelia's Honor/Young Miles by Bujold

Which stories are in Young Miles? Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game, I would guess? Is Mountains of Mourning also included?

I just found The Vor Game on a shelf a couple of nights ago, made the mistake of opening it up to a favorite scene, stayed up til 2am re-reading the whole book.

SpaceBadger

[Geckomlis]

Originally posted by Sir Whiskers:
Though I never got hooked by the Honor Harrington series, I found the Starfire books by Weber and White (Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and The Shiva Option) to be great fun. The characters are a bit two-dimensional, but the space battles are great. As someone else said, these books never fail to get me in the mood to play SE4.

BTW, a couple years ago a poster talked about creating a Starfire mod for SE4 - does anyone know if this was ever done?

Stafire Mod Thread
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=006205#000000

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[Deathstalker]

Cordelia has the first two books in the series, then Young Miles has the next two IIRC. Thats the ONE thing I hate about book stores (even Chapters does it), you go in and look at a book, it seems interesting and then you find out its part 45 of 68 and part 1 is nowhere to be seen. ARGH. Luckily our local chapters seems to be ok at stocking titles and we have several good 2nd hand book shops.