JackBurtonJr
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Since Mr. Correia brings up his new book forthcoming from Baen Publishers let me take the opportunity to share what Baen does for it's readers.
They understand that few people want to plunk down cold hard cash for an author they may not know much about... so they offer quite a few absolutely free (and complete) books from their top authors available for download. Just go to their website and download what you want.
Many of the free books are the first one or two of a longer series. And since Baen has the absolute best military science fiction authors writing for them, it makes it really easy to grab a number of books that have quite a bit of firearm action.
Here's a few of my favorites...
Anything by Eric Flint... but especially
1632 and 1633
Anything by John Ringo... but especially
A Hymn Before Battle and the followup, Gust Front (this book will have you cheering so loudly the neighbors will call the police)
March Upcountry and the followup, March to the Sea (these two books have more firearms action per page than any other ten books combined)
Anything by David Weber... but especially
Mutineer's Moon
On Basilisk Station and it's followups...
The Apocalypse Troll
And Oath of Swords and it's followup (which is fantasy, but full of great action)
Anything by David Drake... but especially
An Oblique Approach and it's followups (takes a while to get to guns but the series is fantastically good.)
Lt. Leary Commanding and it's followups...
And, of course, The Tank Lords
And I would be remiss if I didn't mention Elizabeth Moon, who doesn't have any of her great military SF in the free library but she does have Sheepfarmers Daughter, which is the first book in one of the best action/fantasy series that exists.
There's a couple of years worth of good reading that Baen is giving away, and I've barely touched the surface of the great books.
As a side note, I have nothing to do with Baen except be an appreciative reader.
They understand that few people want to plunk down cold hard cash for an author they may not know much about... so they offer quite a few absolutely free (and complete) books from their top authors available for download. Just go to their website and download what you want.
Many of the free books are the first one or two of a longer series. And since Baen has the absolute best military science fiction authors writing for them, it makes it really easy to grab a number of books that have quite a bit of firearm action.
Here's a few of my favorites...
Anything by Eric Flint... but especially
1632 and 1633
Anything by John Ringo... but especially
A Hymn Before Battle and the followup, Gust Front (this book will have you cheering so loudly the neighbors will call the police)
March Upcountry and the followup, March to the Sea (these two books have more firearms action per page than any other ten books combined)
Anything by David Weber... but especially
Mutineer's Moon
On Basilisk Station and it's followups...
The Apocalypse Troll
And Oath of Swords and it's followup (which is fantasy, but full of great action)
Anything by David Drake... but especially
An Oblique Approach and it's followups (takes a while to get to guns but the series is fantastically good.)
Lt. Leary Commanding and it's followups...
And, of course, The Tank Lords
And I would be remiss if I didn't mention Elizabeth Moon, who doesn't have any of her great military SF in the free library but she does have Sheepfarmers Daughter, which is the first book in one of the best action/fantasy series that exists.
There's a couple of years worth of good reading that Baen is giving away, and I've barely touched the surface of the great books.
As a side note, I have nothing to do with Baen except be an appreciative reader.