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ORIGINAL: sabre1

"Armor" was different, but I forget the author's name.

that is one of my favorites, even went back and bought it again when I wanted to reread it and couldn't find it

(I think the Starship trooper movie took more from that story then from Starship trooper book)

more of a War/Fantasy then a War/Science, but you could look for the Black Company books, twisted story but good (Glen Cook)

the General series is also good, mainly anything by Drake is good  

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

more of a War/Fantasy then a War/Science, but you could look for the Black Company books, twisted story but good (Glen Cook)

the General series is also good, mainly anything by Drake is good  

Twisted I agree, the honor of the regiment is pretty dumb when honor requires attrition to the last man and folding of the colors, as occurred in one of Glen Cook's novels..

I bet you liked "The Dragon Never Sleeps", a fine novel with an interesting ending, after much buildup. The most interesting side show was the Sarge who had to survive being dumped into an alien ghetto...

Some of those titles are here for free

http://www.baen.com/library/

ORIGINAL: Jeeves

ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Alright, since some here know something about this kind of stuff I have a favor to ask....Theres a book and I cannot remember the name...It deals with a alien invasion of earth and somehow vampires end up helping humanity against the aliens...Anyone know the name or the author?   Would be greatly appreciated

Perhaps you mean 'The Madness Season" by C. S. Friedman, where a single surviving vampire decides the hegemonic succession of the conquerers?

Nope....It doesnt sound like CS Friedman....One other thing I remember about it...It had the "hero" deployed in the Balkans(I think)

Avid reader of the Black Library's Warhammer 40K novels

Try reading the Horus Heresy Series

Hi.

Try any of the INHERITANCE, LEGACY, or STAR CARRIER trilogies by Ian Douglas. All 7 of them are great reads.

Also any of the STARFIRE novels by Steve White and David Weber. Also all great reads.

Rob.

ORIGINAL: Mickey

Some of those titles are here for free

http://www.baen.com/library/

Hey - thanks for the link - just sent it to my wife who has been filling up her Nook with ebooks.

thanks
Rick

For vampire books, has anyone read the necroscope by Brian Lumley?  I thought they were interesting until there were too many of them for me to keep up with.

David Weber is good - he really knows how to describe a good starship battle.

I'd also recommend David Gerrold - his Starwolf series wasn't bad -esp the first Starhunt. For a couple of one off's Richard Meredith - "we all died at Breakaway Station" and Glen Cook -"Passage at arms" - its a rip of "Das Boot" in a sci-fi setting but well done.

I aslo really like Richard Morgan - his Takeshi Kovacs series was great. Pity I heard he won't do any more with that character.

Thanks for all of the suggestions! I just finished reading "Out of the Dark". The story was good as an example of mankind (loosely interpreted) getting payback on brutal invaders, in the tradition of the movie "Independence Day"...

If you want a downer, try David Gerrold's "War against the Chtorr" series. So far as I know, that is the only one where aliens treat Earth life the way SOME people talk about "terraforming" other worlds. Speaking of "Downer"s, no one has mentioned C.J. Cherryh, who wrote a good series of Alliance versus Union novels, perhaps because I asked for little known or newer authors...