Quatermass wrote:
On Basilisk Station, the first Honor Harrington book, by David Weber was pretty good, but rather too serious and too heavy on tech-wank for my liking.
The Vorkosigan Saga is pretty good, but not all of its stories deal with space combat. It's about one fifth space combat, and four fifths science fiction intrigue thrillers. In terms of space combat, the books in the series that deal with that are Shards of Honour (in the omnibus book Cordelia's Honour), The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game (in the omnibus book Young Miles).
Thanks for the recommendations, I think I've seen a couple of those books' titles at a store nearby.
What I think would be neat though, for a science fiction novel, is to focus on using physics that we know today and technologies which are actually existent rather than making more and more impossible devices, such as FTL drives and gravity generators, and instead using things such as centrifuges for replacing gravity, nuclear reactors for powering spacecraft when traveling too far from a star to use solar panels, etc. In other words, not a complete "tech w*k" but use what we have and know is possible in order to accomplish interplanetary colonization and combat. The author of Star Strike seems to like doing the opposite of that approach, unfortunately.
08 Dec 2010, 8:41 pm
