Here are 40 books that War God fans have personally recommended once you finish the War God series.
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I have always had an interest in military history. I have read biographies of numerous senior officers from different countries from World War II, World War I, and the Korean War. I have read books covering the actions of different military groups during the same periods. I have watched many documentaries covering a wide variety of topics that arose from those periods of time, including the socioeconomic impact they all had. Whenever I see this theme rendered in a story, I feel compelled to view it through a more discerning lens, to ensure the author is presenting an environment that has a consistent internal logic.
I loved the setting for this novel, the first command of the young officer.
I loved the setting and the cultures that he introduced. I found the main character to be so believable and someone I could easily sympathize with. The choices they face and the decisions they make are not simple, and so very human.
I had no problems whatsoever with getting lost in a story set many hundreds of years in the future.
While I love a good romance, I was disappointed to discover how few novels are written about friendship. In so many books, friends take a backseat to the love interest, or to the plot; it’s hard, outside of fiction aimed at children, to find stories that treat friendship as pivotal to a character’s life as friendship usually is in normal life. I love stories that show us what that kind of friendship looks like, and how it can matter… which is why I write them.
Am I recommending a Star Trek book? And yet, this (questionably canonical) novel is more about two original characters, a human woman and the Vulcan, and tells the story of their unlikely friendship as flashbacks during their difficult captivity as hostages. A fantastic first contact story, as well as a powerful depiction of friendship in duress.
DWELLERS IN THE CRUCIBLE Warrantors of Peace: the Federation's daring experiment to prevent war among its members. each Warrantor, man or woman is hostage for the government of his native world -- and is instantly killed if that world breaks the peace. Now Romulans have kidnapped six Warrantors, to foment political chaos -- and then civil war -- within the Federation. Captain Kirk must send Sulu to infiltrate Romulan territory, find the hostages, and bring them back alive -- before the Federation self-destructs!
While I love a good romance, I was disappointed to discover how few novels are written about friendship. In so many books, friends take a backseat to the love interest, or to the plot; it’s hard, outside of fiction aimed at children, to find stories that treat friendship as pivotal to a character’s life as friendship usually is in normal life. I love stories that show us what that kind of friendship looks like, and how it can matter… which is why I write them.
Harrier, son of a harbormaster, and Tiercel, nobleman’s son, make for exactly the kind of friendship you often see in real life, where one of the pair’s a dreamer and the other a pragmatist, and they need one another for balance. Their friendship remains central to all three books of this series, keeping them sane as they take on an impossible world-saving task.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory teamed up to write The Obsidian Trilogy, set in a wondrous world filled with magical beings, competing magic systems, and a titanic struggle between good and evil.
That world proved so popular with the creators and readers alike that Lackey and Mallory have returned to it with The Phoenix Unchained, Book One of The Enduring Flame, the opening volume of a new epic fantasy trilogy. After a thousand years of peace, much Magick has faded from the world. The Elves live far from humankind. There are no…
While I love a good romance, I was disappointed to discover how few novels are written about friendship. In so many books, friends take a backseat to the love interest, or to the plot; it’s hard, outside of fiction aimed at children, to find stories that treat friendship as pivotal to a character’s life as friendship usually is in normal life. I love stories that show us what that kind of friendship looks like, and how it can matter… which is why I write them.
Not all siblings end up friends, and the evil brother who wants to steal the throne or the catty sister who wants to steal the boy are cliché staples of the genre. That’s what made Summers at Castle Auburn so refreshing: Corie and her half-sister, Elisandra, love and are loyal to one another throughout the whole book, and their relationship sustains the characters through their adventure and to the happy ending.
A woman blessed, or cursed, with a talent for witchcraft returns to Castle Auburn where she spent her childhood in joy-only to find an aura of dread awaiting her.
While I love a good romance, I was disappointed to discover how few novels are written about friendship. In so many books, friends take a backseat to the love interest, or to the plot; it’s hard, outside of fiction aimed at children, to find stories that treat friendship as pivotal to a character’s life as friendship usually is in normal life. I love stories that show us what that kind of friendship looks like, and how it can matter… which is why I write them.
The heart of this fantasy trilogy, rife with complex, believable, and heart-breaking politics, is the relationship between Tansen, the unwilling witness to civil war, and Josarian, the face of that war that Tansen swears to protect. I love how Resnick uses their friendship to animate the conflict between patriotism and pragmatism, and the dynamic between the believer and the “once burnt, twice shy” cynic. Unforgettable.
For a thousand years, Sileria has toiled under the yoke of foreign conquerors: the latest, the hedonistic Valdani, have forced the Silerian mountains clans into harsh slavery. Villages have been razed, and the innocent populace dragged to the mines to toil with no hope of escape until their death. By fate and prophecy, five desperate people have been brought reluctantly together, forging an uneasy alliance against the Valdani. They are a peasant-turned-outlaw with a message of resistance; a lethal warrior; a hauntingly seductive aristocrat; Sileria's most powerful sorcerer who craves revenge almost as much as freedom from the Valdani; and…
I’m a military veteran who has read science fiction and fantasy since the second grade. After reading everything on my parent’s bookshelves, everything in the school and public libraries, I had a teacher recommend I become an author. I love stories about strong-willed individuals standing up for what they believe in and changing the world. I have a master’s degree in engineering, a love for well-built things and taking stuff apart to see how it works, and a fascination with people and how they behave. In addition to writing, I am an avid gamer and a dabbler in a variety of things, from metalworking to hiking.
I really enjoyed the fun and humor in this book. It’s corny, it’s off the wall, and it’s deeply rooted in 80’s action movies. I love the over-the-top outrageousness of some of the scenes and how the author still can pull it back for moments of the main character working through his own personal tragedies.
I love that it’s a superhero/alternate history/urban fantasy book that can poke fun at itself while still dealing with serious themes like government overreach and individual freedoms.
1954, the year of the asteroid, the year of change…
It altered the world forever.
People began to develop unexplained abilities. Biological Enhanced Nascent Talents seemed to appear at random. There was no particular genetic reason for fifteen percent of the human population to be affected. Talents developed skills that set them apart from the great majority of those affected.
The others… they were just BENT.
In ’58 Alexander Lloyd became America’s most wanted criminal and is still at large, but it’s much more difficult to hide in an ever-advancing technological world. There is no official place for him to…
I’ve had the urge to write stories as far back as public school. And despite encouragement from a creative writing teacher in high school, my first career ended up being corporate financial analysis. By the time I reached 59, I was (a) unemployed and unemployable (due to age) and (b) in a relationship with a wonderful woman who loved science fiction and was very creative (a former art teacher). With her encouragement, I finished my first SF novel at just the right time to benefit from the explosion of interest in reading ebooks bought on Amazon. I’ve now written 37 novels.
I like to read stories that involve strategy and tactics, and this book has plenty of both. The book is the first of two parts set in a story universe that was inspired by a space game called Starfire. David and Steve have let their imaginations run wild with their descriptions of space battles and character development.
When I finished this book, I couldn’t wait for the conclusion, The Shiva Option. Like many of David’s books, this one is a thick book. There’s a lot here to keep you entertained.
''In difficult ground, press on. In encircled ground, devise strategems. In death ground, fight.'' 5000 ye ars later, in the time of the 4th Interstellar War, Sun Tzu'' s advice still makes perfect sense for the humans and their allies the Orions. '
I’ve had the urge to write stories as far back as public school. And despite encouragement from a creative writing teacher in high school, my first career ended up being corporate financial analysis. By the time I reached 59, I was (a) unemployed and unemployable (due to age) and (b) in a relationship with a wonderful woman who loved science fiction and was very creative (a former art teacher). With her encouragement, I finished my first SF novel at just the right time to benefit from the explosion of interest in reading ebooks bought on Amazon. I’ve now written 37 novels.
I read this book at university and couldn’t put it down. It was written in the 1950s by an author who tragically took his own life just as he was on the verge of becoming as popular as Arthur C. Clark or Isaac Asimov. Do not be put off by the campy title. It’s a ‘rousing good yarn’ and may have influenced a lot of space opera writers over the years.
Piper was a student of history, and his historical knowledge is evident in this book. His writing style reflects the times he was in when curse words were not allowed every day, so he had to invent his own. Piper is also known for his very popular Fuzzies series and his Paratime stories.
I often wonder what other rousing good yarns he would have written if he had not committed suicide. I have reread all his books at least…
The novel follows the adventures of Lucas Trask, a nobleman and space captain who becomes a "Space Viking" after his home planet, Aton, is attacked and devastated by a neighboring planet. Seeking revenge for the destruction of his world, Trask gathers a crew of loyal followers and embarks on a mission to raid and plunder planets in the Sword Worlds, a region of space known for its piracy and lawlessness. Trask's ultimate goal is to build a new civilization and carve out a domain of his own amidst the chaos of the galactic frontier. Along the way, he faces various…
I have always had an interest in military history. I have read biographies of numerous senior officers from different countries from World War II, World War I, and the Korean War. I have read books covering the actions of different military groups during the same periods. I have watched many documentaries covering a wide variety of topics that arose from those periods of time, including the socioeconomic impact they all had. Whenever I see this theme rendered in a story, I feel compelled to view it through a more discerning lens, to ensure the author is presenting an environment that has a consistent internal logic.
I found this book when surfing the Baen public library on their site. It was free to read, and I liked some of the short stories I had read from Eric Flint.
Holy crap, nothing prepared me for the rollercoaster ride that this novel was. I loved the no-nonsense character that he gave to the main character. Add to that the fantastic alt-history spin he put to the story, and I was hooked.
I can completely understand why so many other authors added their own stories to the universe that Eric Flint created.
I have always had an interest in military history. I have read biographies of numerous senior officers from different countries from World War II, World War I, and the Korean War. I have read books covering the actions of different military groups during the same periods. I have watched many documentaries covering a wide variety of topics that arose from those periods of time, including the socioeconomic impact they all had. Whenever I see this theme rendered in a story, I feel compelled to view it through a more discerning lens, to ensure the author is presenting an environment that has a consistent internal logic.
Lewrie is going up the ranks, and watching/reading his attempts at being a proper officer while keeping his inner rogue nature in check is fantastically satisfying. I was absolutely fascinated following his adventures this time.
Even if this is the 6th novel in the series, I could not predict how each choice was going to resolve.
Our favourite rakish sailor, Alan Lewrie, returns in this thrilling historical naval adventure.
It is 1793, and Alan Lewrie, swashbuckling naval warrior turned family man, longs for battle. Oppressed by life as a gentleman farmer, when revolutionary France draws Britain into war, Lewrie is only too pleased to answer the navy's call.
But life aboard the H.M.S Cockerel is marred by a malaria-stricken tyrant of a captain and a restless crew. When the war escalates Lewrie finds himself at the Battle of Toulon where he meets a dashing young Napoleon Bonaparte. Outnumbered three to one, Lewrie takes on the French…
