Neal Asher (Author)

Jul 082010

Neal asher lives on the sunny island of Crete (at least at the moment) with his wife and writes wonderful science fiction and he is one of my favorite authors.

Neal is a talented world builder in the borderlands of singularity and his characters are complex ‘real’ humans with regrets, guilt and feelings like the rest of us that makes it easy to relate to them. His novels are fast paced, easy to read and with complex plots. I started reading his agent Cormac series.

As far as I know he doesn’t have any aliases or pseudonyms he write under.

His next book The Technician come out in August,2010 and is on my pick for the rest of 2010. The Departure, the first book in his new Owner Sequence series will be published in 2011 probably in August. See my post on the upcoming novel.

Series

Polity Universe

The Polity where most humans live is governed by benign artificial intelligences. They took power when humanity’s wars started to get out of hand and they elected themselves not to go after Singularity. Then the Polity meets the Prador and a huge war breaks loose (Prador Moon). Ian Cormac is grows up during the war (Shadow of the Scorpion) and his grown up adventures as Polity Agent follows. Then follows the Splatterjay series and finally Hilldiggers.

Agent Cormac series

Wonderful series about a secret agent named Ian Cormac that includes a mysterious dragon, renegade AIs, genocide, ancient alien technology, sentient ships and spiffy gadgets.

0. Shadow of the Scorpion
1. Grindlinked (2001)
2. The Line of the Polity (2003)
3. Brass Man (2005)
4. Polity Agent (2006)
5. Line War (2006)

Splaterjay series

This is a series I am about to read, the books are on my 2010 summer reading plan

1. The Skinner (2002)
2. The Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006)
3. Orbus (2009)

Standalone Polity Novels

Prador moon
The Technician (Tor UK 2010)

New Series by Neal Asher The Departure (Owner Trilogy 1) October 13, 2010

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John G. Hemry alias Jack Campbell (Author)

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Mar 182010

I have been following Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet Series since about 2006. Lost fleet is coming to an end next month and a new begining in a new series Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier. He also have a contract for another series in the same universe called Phoenix Stars.

Now I want to check out the other material he has written, there is a JAG in space series, Paul Sinclair and Stark’s War about a professional soldier.

He writes pretty straight forward enjoyable military science fiction with better than average characterization.

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Elizabeth Moon (Author)

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Mar 162010

I started reading Elizabeth Moon with Hunting Party back in 1993 and immediately fell in love with her style and her characters. Me and my friends all read the whole Serrano/Suiza series during the late nineties. It was also during the that time that i picked up Remnant Population, one of, if not the best first contact stories I ever read, I must say I love Ofelia the protagonist of the book, she is what I imagine Elizabeth Moon to be in real life.

So I fell for her Science Fiction stories first unlike many others of her fans and it was not until the new century that I started to read her fantasy stories. I like them well enough but my heart is in science fiction.

I have read all her books that are published and I have the latest in the mail. Reviews of the books will show up here as i reread the books which I do every third year or so.

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Allen Steele (Author)

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Feb 112010

I should have Orbital Decay somewhere but I can’t find it now. That was my first contact with Aleen Steele some time last century but it wasn’t until I read Coyote that he had me hooked. He has a real flair for portraying a pioneer spirit in his books that I like.

Series

Coyote

The Coyote books have such a nice new nation feeling, somewhat like I imagine America the years after the revolution but with aliens.

1-3 is a trilogy, 4 & 5 is standalone books in the same universe, 6-7 is a two book sequel to the first three

Links to my posts, you can see some development there I hope.

Coyote Trilogy

Coyote (1-2 is in one post)
Coyote Rising
Coyote Frontier

Galactic Club

Spindrift

Galaxy Blues

Hex (Forthcoming)

Coyote Chronicles

Coyote Horizon
Coyote Destiny (not very good)

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William H. Keith alias Ian Douglas (author)

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Feb 092010

What I like with William H.Keith is the epic warrior sagas he writes and the way he uses hard science as a foundation for his science fiction technology. His world building is also excellent and his plots are well though out.

Now and then he sneaks in a bit of psionic meta physics.

Among other things William served as a Navy hospital Corpsman during the Vietnam era. That experience shows in his books.

He also has an amazing number of aliases.

Aliases

Ian Douglas: Heritage, Legacy and Inheritance trilogy.
H. Jay Riker: SEALs: The Warrior Breed and The Silent Service series. Used both by the author and his brother Andrew.
Keith Douglass: Carrier (1-7) and SEAL Team Seven (1-3). Used both by the author and his brother Andrew.
Bill Keith: Not really a pseudonym. two-book near-future military series from Harper.
Robert Cain: Cybernarc series
Keith William Andrews: Freedom’s Rangers with his brother Andrew.

Series

Star Carrier as Ian Douglas

Earth Strike
Book II will be published in 2011

Heritage series (Stellar Marine Universe,) as Ian Douglas

Covers the American Marine Corps mission and exploration of our solar system in the late 21st century. They find alien technology almost everywhere, and traces of repeated strikes by an alien race to exterminate intelligent life.