West Of Honor

10 best books like West Of Honor (Jerry Pournelle): The Light Brigade, The Mote in God's Eye, Soldier, Ask Not, A Deepness in the Sky, Outies, Ranks of Bronze, The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly, Skylark DuQuesne, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did), To Clear Away The Shadows

The Light Brigade

Author	Kameron Hurley
ISBN	1481447963

From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.

They said the war would turn us into light.
I wanted to be counted...

The Mote in God's Eye

Author

Larry Niven

Very entertaining, interesting, intriguing, thought provoking, etc.

Good science fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...

Soldier, Ask Not

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0722129521

Ohhhh, potential-squandering frustration...thy name is The Childe Cycle!!!

Gordon Dickson’s superbly premised, yet underachieving Childe Cycle has been a source of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-whitening frustration for me. This disappointing, expectation larceny began while...

A Deepness in the Sky

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	0812536355

Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.

The...

Outies

Author

Jennifer R. Pournelle

Outies is an authorized sequel to The Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand by best-selling SF duo Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. With a fresh point of view, deep continuity, and page-turning plot twists, J.R. (Jennifer) Pournelle brings a mature generation of Moties to life for a mature generation...

Ranks of Bronze

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,...

The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly

Author	Eric Flint
ISBN	1416520783

The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the...

Skylark DuQuesne

Author	E.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN	0586039465

Dick Seaton and Marc DuQuesne are the deadliest enemies in the Universe--their feud has blazed among the stars and changed the history of a thousand planets. But now a threat from outside the Galaxy drives them into a dangerous alliance as hordes of strange races drive to a collision with Mankind!

Seaton...

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

Author

Philippa Perry

This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good connection and what can enhance it
The most influential relationships are between parents and children. Yet for so many families, these relationships go can wrong and it may be difficult to get back on...

To Clear Away The Shadows

Author	David Drake
ISBN	1481484028

NEW ENTRY IN DAVID DRAKE'S LANDMARK RCN SERIES

ADVENTURES BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict.

...

Aftershocks

Author

Marko Kloos

A solar system fights to survive and reform in the wake of war, but the real battle is about to begin.

Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia System, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources,...