My Favorite Military Sci Fi Novels

I’m having surgery soon. So I've scheduled this newsletter to go out automatically a bit earlier than normal. It’s been a difficult summer. I was hospitalized for 10 days and I’ve had to wait to have surgery. Doctors appear to be rather busy around where I live--and I've been seeing a lot of them....

So, as I’ve been recuperating between health lows in my life, I’ve had time to read more than I usually do. I haven’t exactly felt up to sitting for very long and writing fiction—though, I’ve gotten some edits down, so Apocaplyse Knot, Book 3, Bigfoot and the Four Horseman, has only been delayed a bit. (But I've had strength to slowly write a new prequel novella, tentatively titled Lord Armageddon and the Hellions, which I hope to be one of two or three that will be the back story to part of Apocalypse Knot, Book 4.)

As to what I’ve been re-reading (which has been easier under the circumstane), well, I am a big fan of David Weber. His Honor Harrington Series, essentially a history repeats itself of the England and French battling it out on the high seas in the 1700s, is magnificent. His Safehold Series is amazing too, But what I just had to pull off my shelf, in his series written with John Ringo, March Upcountry, March to the Sea, and March to the Stars. I love them the most.

Among the less well known authors, who I can’t help read again and again, in military space stories is David Feintuch’s Nicholas Seafort Saga, which like the Honor Harrington novels is also a Horatio Hornblow type series. Though, Honor is a woman captain, Feintuch’s Midshipman’s Hope, the first book in his seven volume series, jumped off my book shelf when I was feeling low, and, well, if a Midshipman can become the sixteen year-old captain of a starship after all the senior command officers are lost, well, I can get through my own challenges. Corny, I know, but it’s why I love books like this..

I don’t want to spoil any of the tells, which is why I’ve linked these .favorites of mine.

Now for those looking for free stories… My novellas, Last Knight, a prequel to Knight of the Broken Table (which is free in a lot of epub formats, except Kindle), and The Dragon’s Curse, a story set in the world of For Whom the Bell Trolls, appear in the promo, Spectacular Giveaway for Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Other Speculative Fiction with a lot of other great free stories worth checking out.

Also, if you haven’t checked out my novelTerran Catalyst, it is free on Kindle and in other epub formats. Terran Catalyst, Book 1, is the first book in my space opera series. If you like stories about a ragtag crew on a jinxed space freighter about to get into loads of trouble like I do!

Dare 2 Believe,

D.H.