OT : Reading Suggestions - Military SF

[Randallw]

Possum said:

The Draka novels, (Marching through Georgia, Under the Yoke, The Stone Dogs), by SM Stirling.

The War in 2020, by Ralph Peters. This is a superb novel, but very depressing. A tragedy worthy of Euripides.

I have all the Draka books (don't forget Drakon and Drakas)and I have read 2020. I wasn't too impressed by 2020 however after 9/11 I remembered what happened in it. "Draka", has been described as a story about psycopathic lesbians, but thats mostly "Drakon", the main premise is that if we "live in the best of all possible worlds" imagine what the "worst" is like. As a counterfactual afficionado its considered a classic, however it does fall vitim to the problem of Alternate History in that it stills has elements that by all rights should not exist eg. how the hell the nazis still exist if Draka exists. I was actually considering a Draka shipset (the portraits come right off the books) however I am delaying it so as to make it for SEV.

Back to Topic: I am currently reading the Praxis series. Can't say its superb (the villeins fall to the same trap as in a Hubbard novel ie. they are incompetent morons), but its at least interesting and in part covers the development of tactics in a civil war within an empire that has existed for 12,000 years and has had to do little but drop anti-matter on any civilisation it meets to annex them.