Grimmer Than Hell
10 best books like Grimmer Than Hell (David Drake): Lazarus Rising, David Falkayn: Star Trader, The Forlorn, Phylogenesis, Stronghold Rising, Planets of Adventure, Odyssey, The Hub: Dangerous Territory, The Tyrant, Pandora's Legions
The hugely popular Starfist saga featuring Marines at war in outer space is the only military science fiction series written by real combat vets: David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now comes the explosive hardcover debut of this series–packed with hell-torn action and blazing adventure.
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1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones.
2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally...
| Author | Dave Freer |
| ISBN | 0671578316 |
Greetings one and all! After reading "Rats, Bats and Vats" (RBV) and "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly" (RBU), I thought I would try Dave Freer's first novel. I'm very happy I did. It starts off on three different paths that eventually meet up and that's when things really take off.
I loved the characterization...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345418611 |
In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.
Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between...
| Author | Lisanne Norman |
| ISBN | 0886778980 |
This book was a little different then the other books in the series. It was the first one to jump forward in time, by about 6 months. But then the bulk of the book was in flashbacks. Different typeface helped to tell the reader they were "in the future" or "back on the original timeline". At first that was a...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743435273 |
This collection of three novels by the creator of Retief features three heroes on interstellar adventures.
Contents:
Galactic Odyssey (aka Spaceman!) was first serialized in IF magazine (May-July, 1967) and first published in novel form by Berkley in 1967.
"A Trip to...
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671319841 |
The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to...
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 0743471504 |
On the planet Hafardine, civilization must rediscover progress or collapse. Adrian, guided by disembodied electronic mentors from space, has brought gunpowder and steam power to the Kingdom of the Isles to break the stranglehold of the Empire. But he will have to avoid being killed by the suspicious...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 0671318616 |
The aliens of Centra have won the war against Earth only to find that they are not clever enough to keep the peace.
The humans infiltrate all the military and political levels of Centran society. They end up fighting FOR the Centrans on far away planets.
Who is who?
"We took this stitching-gun...
| Author | Catherine Asaro |
| ISBN | 0765345579 |
The Birth of an Empire
Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from...
| Author | John Ringo |
| ISBN | 0743499166 |
Keith Laumer's Bolos are Back-and New York Times Best-Selling Author John Ringo has Signed on with the Bolo Brigade! First Time in Paperback.
When a ruthless political regime seizes power on a world struggling to recover from alien invasion, a former war hero finds herself leading a desperate...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812521757 |
It's not one of her strongest works, but I really like the world-building and the aliens, and the interaction between the aliens and the humans. There are lots of lovely touches like the description of food, too. It's also notable for showing same-gender relationships, written during a time when that...
| Author | Jack McKinney |
| ISBN | 0345341414 |
An alien fortress had crashlanded on Earth. But the most recent arrival from the galaxy's more sinister side had been brought down deliberately. Now it sat silently overlooking Monument City, as though daring someone to penetrate its dark mysteries.
And who better to test the mettle of that...
After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilizations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets. Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference. There, a Fleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization. When it found Raj Whitehall, the man who could execute its plan...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0671877070 |
If you're a fan of the first two books you may or may not like this one. For all intents and purposes the Dahak series ended with the previous novel. Don't get me wrong, all your favorite characters are all here in this installment and they do have their own little story, but the book isn't really about them...
