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The Last Full Measure by Jack Campbell
This is listed by Amazon as a novel, but at 104 pages I don't think it qualifies. What this is is an alternative history novella placed in 1863 American where a civil war of a different sort is about to break out. The characters are all historical figures of the era and there is a twist that any Civil War buff will see coming a mile off. I do wish it had been longer and I hope we will see more of this history. Recommended.
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Have you read his Campbell's Pillars of Reality? It starts with Dragons of Dorcastle.
A colony from Earth has problems and now we're hundreds of years later.
It's pretty good. The sequel series, about the kid of Our Heroes, is okay. The first two books in the series are good, the third one just came out and it's Eh at best.
His Starks' War trilogy is excellent, just about as good as the Lost Fleet series.
Do you read Kindle books?
Jay Allan has one Eh series and one good series (until the last book), the Blood on the Stars series is pretty good, for 5 books.
I don't often like series that go longer than 3 books.
I read some of his Lost Fleet novels and enjoyed them. Then I got distracted and never got back to them. Will eventually.
Just finished Tim Lebbow's Relics. Kinda urban fantasy. Have the next in McClellan's new Powder Mage series and a number of odds and ends to read but am rereading John Ringo's Paladin of Shadows series first.
I got turned off Paladin of Shadows with the 50 pages of bondage porn in the middle.
I'm going to try the old Powder Mage series, I got the first book, I just got a bunch of stuff and I started re-reading Forstchen's Lost Regiment series.
That's one very good, but occasionally disturbing, series what with all the 'aliens eating humans while they're still alive' stuff.
Are you a fan of H. Beam Piper? All but one of his books and short fiction are free over at Project Gutenberg. Probably my favorite classic science fiction author after Heinlein.
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