![]() His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. ![]() Glenn is a Veteran and has served in the US Army as a Military Policeman and currently (I think, haven't seen him in several months) serves in the Air National Guard as a Combat Arms instructor.Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. With no way to predict the results of such a mission with any certainty, Admiral Icarus Hansen, chief of Solfleet Intelligence, a man haunted by actions he has taken in the past, must decide whether or not to go forward with the mission anyway, knowing that whoever goes might never be able to return." The Earth Security Council believes that if a key event can be prevented from every happening, then the ultimate outcome of the war can be changed in the Coalition's favor. One possible solution lies in an ancient and my sterious alien device known as a portal-a doorway into Earth's past. The time for desperate measure is at hand. "The enemy is advancing quickly while the Coalition falters. Honestly, I haven't read the book yet, I've had it a few months and skimmed it. I only recommend this one because I happen to know the author personally. Heavy Time is a great book but Hellburner is the rare example of a sequel being better than the original. ![]() "Devil To The Belt" is the name of the published duology. I would read them together if you are interested in "Hellburner". The first part of the duology "Heavy Time" it's own story, more merchanter/asteroid mining related, and 4 of the 5 same characters. She also wrote a two part series of "Heavy Time" and "Hellburner", the 2nd of which is definitely military sci-fi. ![]() "Pride" is a brilliant book of the Haldeman and Scalzi class, but not exactly military sci/fi "centered". The Pride of Chanur is quite different, the human is the alien, the main characters aren't human and they're merchants and they wind up rescuing this human armscomper from some other alien species that captured a human exploration vessel. "Rimrunners" is about a marine on one of the carriers being left behind at a station and having to make her way in a space station/merchanter ship environment when all she's ever experienced is the way of life on board military ships. If you're interested in a little different take, a couple of Cherryh's excellent books are military sci/fi related though I'd call them more merchanter sci/fi. Problem you have is, hehehe, you've read Haldeman and Scalzi and Starship Troopers and when you're read Armor, you'll pretty much have read the very best military sci/fi has to offer. Actually preffered speaker for teh dead but did enjoy Enders game.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |