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

No more information...

[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.

[Narrew]

this is the order I suggest, I found it on the web when I found out about the Bujold series...(from some web site) The best place to start the Vorkosigan saga is, IMHO, with Young Miles. It collects the novels The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game, along with the novella "The Mountains of Mourning" (from Borders of Infinity). After you read that, you'll probably want to read Cordelia's Honor (which collects Shards of Honor and Barrayar)-- this tells the tale of Miles' parents and Miles' birth. Or you might want to just keep on keeping on with Miles. His adventures continue in Cetaganda, Borders of Infinity, Brothers In Arms, Mirror Dance, Memory, Komarr, and A Civil Campaign....

I hope that helps

[narf poit chez BOOM]

not to mention Diplomatic Immunity.

[Narrew]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
not to mention Diplomatic Immunity.

ohh yea, that came out as I was reading those others