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7. Keith Laumer's BOLO stories are enjoyable, and a number of other

Tue Jul 31, 2012, 11:29 PM

Jul 2012

authors have adopted the 'characters.' William C. Dietz has a series starting with Legion of the Damned - I haven't read them all and I felt like there was a decline as I went along, but I did like the first one for sure. Fred Saberhagen's 'Berserker' stories are pretty classic and worth reading. Gordon Dickson's Dorsai! and related books are fun, but do suffer the flaws of their era. Jerry Pournelle (described as being to the right of Genghis Khan) had a related series of military novels - I think the first is The Mercenary.

I'm not sure I'd describe any of those as particularly deep or thought provoking, and the politics and social structures can be offensive, but for fun reading at least they're worth looking into...

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