Hey, I'm struggling to find another good science fiction series. My preference is no galactic wars and I prefer the ones that work on the science (Hard science). But I am a sucker for a good space opera. I'll put this on my blog, send me your recommendations and if I really like one, maybe it'll appear below.
Delphi Station is getting some free press. https://ebookdaily.com/bargain-kindle-books/2021-08-20/B081Y3FT8H Check it out and refer your friends.
I like the empire of bones series by Terry Mixon
ReplyDelete"Mission Zero - The 4th irregulars" is a good choice as is "Dark Deeds" (Class 5), "The Rise gamble" and "We are legion" (Bobiverse).
ReplyDeleteI will start by saying that I am an old fart. I have however been reading Sci-Fi since 1960. My belief is that a story (any story) needs conflict. That conflict can be military, political, or environmental. You did an excellent job of weaving all three into the current series. Pick any one of the three and weave a series (with a few curve balls for fun) around it. For example: take an empire or confederation or any other social structure and have some newer colony revolt against the establishment. this revolt can be any one or combination of the the three (or any others you think of). While proof-reading this I had a truly EVIL thought as a plot twist.
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DeleteApril series by Mackey Chandler
ReplyDeleteEll Donsaii series by Laurence Dahners
And Family Law by Mackey Chandler.
DeleteFor a more bendible si-fi see The Trapped Mind Project by Michael Chatfield.
Adding my vote for all three series, April, Family Law, and Donsaii!
DeleteThose were my recommendations as well.
DeleteMackey Chandler and Dahners.. dahners is a bit more hard sci fi but I love Chandler enough that I have read his books 3 or 4 times.. dahners 2 or 3 :)
DeleteYeah, for really fresh and curious hard science fiction, you really can't beat Laurence E. Dahners' little sagas. I loved "VAZ". Also, "The Stasis Stories".
ReplyDeleteVAZ is so awesome. Totally over the top. And, well as characters go... I miss him a lot. :)
Also, I recently read "A Proton Field Story". Another very fresh and fun story of scientific discovery and sociopolitical/economic mayhem. Heh...
My only gripe regarding Dahners' works is that, much like yours, his stories are too short. (Yes, spoiled and whining here...) I keep looking and waiting for the next book, and when I finally see there will not be one, that a given story is actually finished, then I must find the will to continue, re-discover meaning in life, or... at least what to do from 10pm - 2am every day. :)
IMPORTANT: Peter F. Hamilton.
Of course, I am assuming you have already read the epic work of Peter F. Hamilton (no, NOT the Night's Dawn Trilogy) I am talking about his Commonwealth Saga. It is a 2-Part saga. Part-1: Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained (2-books). Part-2: The Void Trilogy.
If you haven't experienced it, read. Trust me on this... :)
Although The Night's Dawn trilogy is a spectacular epic in and of itself.
DeleteOh, one more big one: "Empire" by Richard F. Weyand
ReplyDeleteIt's reported as a 12 book series, but really what you want are the first 6 novels. This is the original saga. It is space opera, but written like a centuries spanning galactic historical novel. It's probably without a doubt quite possibly the best Empire story that has been written since Asimov's Foundation Series.
Superbly written and immensely satisfying.
- Garo
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ReplyDeleteIf you have not read The Golden Age series by Nathen Lowell try them I find them as addictive as yours.
ReplyDeleteThe Silver Ship series
ReplyDeleteI concur on the Laurence Dahners series, Mackey Chandler series, and any of Nathan Lowell’s. I also suggest Thomas DePerima’s A Galaxy Unknown or ASG: Border Patrol series.
ReplyDeleteT. A. White - The Firebird series is one I really like.
ReplyDeleteYep, an awesome series.
DeleteAny series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is great. Retrieval Artist, Anniversary Day, Diving Universe
ReplyDeleteFor silly fun the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyers. They are supposedly YA, but were fun for this old guy.
Agree about Lowell, I just re-read Trader's, Smuggler's, and Seeker's
Also agree with Dahners. I've read most of those in the last year. Thanks, COVID.
Sara King's Legend of Zero
Vorsokigan Saga by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Any series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is great. Retrieval Artist, Anniversary Day, Diving Universe
ReplyDeleteFor silly fun the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyers. They are supposedly YA, but were fun for this old guy.
Agree about Lowell, I just re-read Trader's, Smuggler's, and Seeker's
Also agree with Dahners. I've read most of those in the last year. Thanks, COVID.
Sara King's Legend of Zero
Vorsokigan Saga by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Hot Gate by John Ringo. Hard sci-fi at its best.
ReplyDeleteOn Silver Wings by Evan Currie.
Nascent by Tony Cordon.
Hot Gate and Nascent are not galaxy spanning but all three series are excellent.
Olan Thorensen has some intersting Si-Fi. and historical science.
ReplyDelete"Cast Under an Alien Sun" lets Joe survive using 20th century knowlage
and still stay alive.
The Alexis Carew series by J. A. Sutherland
ReplyDeleteFreehold by Michael Z. Williamson
The Perilous Waif by E. William Brown (the sequel is supposed to be coming soon)
Colony One by T. L. Ford (a bit like your Delphi series but a lot darker)
The Cassandra Kressnov series by Joel Shepherd (and everything else he writes!)
The Rachel Peng series by K. B. Spangler
The Sculpted Ship by K. M. O’Brien
everything that Gina Marie Wylie has ever written ... ditto Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
(I heartily second all the recommendations for Chandler, Dahners, and Currie.)
... and anything by that Bob Blanton fellow, too!
And, if you feel like going off the well-trod sci-fi path, the Elfhome series by Wen Spencer.
DeleteIt’s my all-time favorite melding of sci-fi and epic fantasy. After all, any sufficiently advanced science seems like magic to those who don’t know how it works ... or something like that.
Her book Endless Blue is oddly compelling and unique world building, too.
I loved The Sculpted Ship by K. M. O’Brien it was my favorite new author/new book of 2015 I hope that the need to actually make living has not lured him away from another book in this promised series
DeleteI've read it several times and been waiting years for the sequal... he is on facebook and says he is still working on it.
DeleteNathan Lowell's Solar Clipper Series. The science isn't super hard but the stories are good. There are multiple lines of stories in the series.
ReplyDeleteNathan Lowell is awesome. I have been following him since before he was an author. He first published free in his own voice the first 6 solar clipper stories on one of the pod cast sites. I found it weird that he had a company redo them for commercial sale.. probably the creative commons license he did the first 6 in back in the day. I found his version to be way better than the one done by someone else for the commercial version.
DeleteI have Quarter Share through Owner's Share as MP3s from the original release. I had to edit Quarter Share's tagging to make it play in order. I periodically relisten to them on my commute (25-35 minutes each way).
DeleteI have given copies of his first 6 books in his own voice to a bunch of people.. have yet have anyone not rave about them. I have enjoyed reading the subsequent books as well. One of his last books out is a stand alone that thought was head and shoulders above the cut. The title is "The Wizard's Butler" very different but a great read.
DeleteI keep waiting for The Wizard's Cat.
DeleteEarth Song series by Mark Wandrey is awesome, but it will leave you in a massive cliffhanger if you read it just now. Mark says that there are another two or three books left to be written.
ReplyDelete"The Silver Ships" series and the spin-off "Pyreans" series by S. H. Jucha
ReplyDeleteLinda Nagata - 2 series that tie in together: Nanotech Succession and Inverted Frontiers
ReplyDeletePeter Watts - Not lightweight but, to my mind brilliant, absolutely anything he's done
E. M. Foner's EarthCent series and its spinoffs are my bedtime reading as I await your next book
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I entered his creation via this spin off trilogy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KS8V7Z4?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks and given my 70 something age and growing up in the golden age of FSF in the 50s and 60s it is character driven and set in a fascinating universe without gory violence and gratuitous sex.
The main ambasador sequence series gets off to a rather bumpy start in the first volume but by book 4 the author has hit his marks and working well.