For me: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
I had seen the movie but never read the book before. It was a lot better than I expected.
Also what is your current/next book?
I’m continuing the saga with The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.
For me: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
I had seen the movie but never read the book before. It was a lot better than I expected.
Also what is your current/next book?
I’m continuing the saga with The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.
Been reading Honor Harrington books on vacation.
Good: political and technological world building, factions that are flawed but easy to root for, compelling action sequences.
Bad: eye-rolling 90s neocon chicken-hawk posturing, Mary Sue vibes from Honor herself, some very clumsy historical parallels, well beyond what “Horatio Hornblower in space” strictly needs, and I think Weber was maybe literally in love with her.
I never really was able to get into the honorverse much; but the march upcountry series, by the same two authors who wrote some of the honorverse, I liked a lot.
Upcountry was some of the best military science fiction I ever read. And here, for some reason, they struck the right balance for me, cancelling out both their negative ( for me) traits .
It starts with a total loser of a prince and over time he finds his stride to be more of an Alexander the Great character.
The battles range from medieval weapons to space battles with real time communication constraints, in the four books