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Post subject: Suggested Reading  Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:42 pm |
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Go Navy (?!) ... 
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:54 pm |
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| Quote (Tas @ 13 2005 June,16:22) | ?You really are getting into the Victorian SF arent you!
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You got it, sailor!
How's the exercise going? Ooops- I guess that's classified! 
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:29 pm |
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| Quote (Tas @ 13 2005 June,07:26) | | Thats because you two are Grunt-centric: Lady Harrington is an Officer in the Senior Service! ? |
Sir, Yes Sir. 
Of course, how long can you stay on that boat before you need to come onto land? }:
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:30 pm |
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| Quote (vanvlak @ 13 2005 June,07:54) | | How's the exercise going? Ooops- I guess that's classified! ? |
He could just say, "As Planned".
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:15 am |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 05 2005 June,14:21) | | "The Honor Harrington" series was fun reading until book three. Then I gave up on them. By book three they had taken it so far I was bored. It would have been better to have built up to that level over the series. |
As often happens in long term series this is when it starts to get interesting...The first three books set up the backstory and a majority of the books after that keep relating back to these three...I'm currently on #8 and every one after #2 has related directly to one or more of the ones before it...Granted she raises in rank pretty fast but that's also atributed to the 1-2 (T-)year jumps between most of the books...
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:24 am |
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| Quote (stormseer @ 13 2005 June,15:06) | Started Fatherland by Robert Harris this morning...
From Amazon; "Set in 1964, with Hitler having won the war and ruling over a Greater German Reich, a German policeman investigates a supposedly routine death and ends up uncovering a secret that some people will go to any length to protect."
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I like Fatherland, read it about three or four times now.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:10 pm |
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:51 pm |
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Good point !
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:38 pm |
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On another note, some other excellent series of books in the SciFi military genre are the Bolo series about giant robotic tanks with self aware AIs and a Human pilot
Originally created by Keith Laumer, most of the books are a series of non connecting short stories by a range of authors such as David Weber, Linda Evans and William H Kieth. There are a couple of book which are stand alone novels as well
The series is published by baen books and the list is here
http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp#BOLO
I have the whole set- they are awesome!
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:24 pm |
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| Quote (Tas @ 14 2005 June,07:10) | | Quote (dafrca @ 14 2005 June,07:29) | | Quote (Tas @ 13 2005 June,07:26) | | Thats because you two are Grunt-centric: Lady Harrington is an Officer in the Senior Service! ? |
Sir, Yes Sir. ?
Of course, how long can you stay on that boat before you need to come onto land? ?}:
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As long as need to ?- that is until you surrender! ? |
... or until the boat needs fuel, water, food, women, shore leave, ...
But I do respect the Navy, truly I do. 
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:25 pm |
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| Quote (Tas @ 14 2005 June,08:38) | On another note, some other excellent series of books in the SciFi military genre are the Bolo series about giant robotic tanks with self aware AIs and a Human pilot
Originally created by Keith Laumer, most of the books are a series of non connecting short stories by a range of authors such as David Weber, Linda Evans and William H Kieth. ?There are a couple of book which are stand alone novels as well
The series is published by baen books and the list is here
http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp#BOLO
I have the whole set- they are awesome! |
Some of the Bolo series is better then others though. A few times I felt I was reading something "Forced". But then, I am not saying I did nt like them.
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:37 pm |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 15 2005 June,08:24) | | Quote (Tas @ 14 2005 June,07:10) | | Quote (dafrca @ 14 2005 June,07:29) | | Quote (Tas @ 13 2005 June,07:26) | | Thats because you two are Grunt-centric: Lady Harrington is an Officer in the Senior Service! ? |
Sir, Yes Sir. ?
Of course, how long can you stay on that boat before you need to come onto land? ?}:
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As long as need to ?- that is until you surrender! ? |
... or until the boat needs fuel, water, food, women, shore leave, ...
But I do respect the Navy, truly I do. ?
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Thats why we do Underwya replenishments at sea for fuel, food and water. I have stayed at sea continuously for 90 days before (though thats not nice...)
Women? And thats why there is Bromide in the Tea...
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:05 am |
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:14 am |
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Post subject: Suggested Reading Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:41 am |
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