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Originally Posted by Wetwork
I got sucked into David Gerrold's "The War Against the Chtorr" series in the mid 80's but that SOB has left me hanging for over 20 years with a cliff hanger. And he's still alive!!!! Buy four books, as the series plays out every couple of years, then blam...nothing...lead players hurt, unfinished everything, hints of "just wait", or "I'm almost ready", and nothing for twenty years....bastard. He-He. Good series though..not often you read something about a alien ecology taking over the Earth slowly from the microbes up to mega fauna, inch by inch and us trying to stop it.'
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+1; what the hell is he waiting for?
Space Skimmer is another good book by Gerrold. So is the
Star Wolf series. I've read quite a bit of his work, but...I'll just say that his views about how humans interact with each other are wildly biased, and leave it at that.
I'll also +1 on Larry Correia's work for "fun". Not even remotely science fiction, but fun.
John Scalzi pisses me off. The
Old Man's War series was an enjoyable read but a complete rip-off of
Forever War.
Red Shirts wouldn't have existed without Star Trek, of course, and simply adds a "twist" that has been used by many better authors than him in the past.
Fuzzy Nation is a rip-off of H. Beam Piper's work. I really have to wonder if the guy has a single original thought in his head. And somehow this hack became a moving force in the Hugo awards where he pushes his political agenda.