The Apocalypse Troll

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0671578863

Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects since her family was massacred for conspiring against the Government of Cinnabar. Kostroma...

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0671318330

The guilds of star-travelling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows. That was no handicap to the merchant princes,...

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0743435605

This is a book of short stories in the universe started by Ranks of Bronze. The first story is the short story that eventually became that book. The short story is much better than the book. While it also lacks a lot of explanation, because of its very status as a short story, it can get away with that. The second...

Author	S.M. Stirling
ISBN	0671720376

Somehow I've managed not to come across this series before - probably largely because I've never much enjoyed any of Drake's works I've tried. And I've always been conflicted about Stirling: I like a lot of his concepts, and the emphasis on battle descriptions is right up my street, but they are almost...

Author	John Ringo
ISBN	0743488423

With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, with a couple of million Posleen behind them and fourteen million...

Author

Lois McMaster Bujold

This Vorkosigan novella is kind of a blast from the past, accompanied by a large dose of radiation. :)

Miles, his wife Ekaterin, and the scientist Enrique Borgos, are trying to reclaim a section of their land that was radiation-poisoned in a long-ago war, using the infamous butterbugs from...

Author

C.R. Daems

Jolie was three when she found she was ugly and deformed.
She was five when she found she was a sub-human and an outcast.
She was seven when five boys and two girls dragged her out of the orphanage and beat her unconscious, leaving her lying bleeding and broken in the street.
She was content...