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Computer nerd getting back into the habit of curling up with a good book he so fondly remembers from ages past.
My interests range relatively widely, from history (both, books about history and history novels) over military SciFi to Fantasy to all kinds of technical books.
I prefer long-running series or large universes with dozens of books when it comes to my fiction reading.
My all-time favourites: - David Weber's Honorverse. Far and away the best military SciFi out there - Rebecca Gable's Waringham series
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Michael wants to read Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon (The Horus Heresy, #6)
Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon (The Horus Heresy, #6)
The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years – the knightly orders protect the common …
Michael wants to read Fulgrim by Graham McNeill (The Horus Heresy, #5)
Fulgrim by Graham McNeill (The Horus Heresy, #5)
Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, leads …
Michael started reading Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow
Michael finished reading Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter
Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the …
My favourite among the Horus Heresy books up to now, as the Heresy has now kicked off and the backroom plotting is at least somewhat abetting towards the middle of this one.
Speaking for the overall series, I was a bit worried how having multiple authors writing the same story with the same main characters would turn out, but I have to say that my worries were misplaced. There's no weird "Change of Character" for the main characters between the different authors.
My favourite among the Horus Heresy books up to now, as the Heresy has now kicked off and the backroom plotting is at least somewhat abetting towards the middle of this one.
Speaking for the overall series, I was a bit worried how having multiple authors writing the same story with the same main characters would turn out, but I have to say that my worries were misplaced. There's no weird "Change of Character" for the main characters between the different authors.
Michael wants to read From GSM to LTE-Advanced Pro And 5G by Martin Sauter
Michael started reading Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter
Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter
Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the victory is tainted after Horus's …
Michael wants to read The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
Michael finished reading False Gods by Graham McNeill
Content warning A few little spoilers for WH40K: False Gods
It was a good second book. I'm looking forward to seeing how Loken and Torgaddon develop, and I'm now wondering whether they will survive the heresy, and how long they will stay with Horus, especially after the last scene in the book was the declaration of the Heresy.
Michael wants to read First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome) by Colleen McCullough (Masters of Rome, #1)
First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome) by Colleen McCullough (Masters of Rome, #1)
This historical fiction takes prominent Roman names of the time, and tells their tale in an astonishingly descriptive way. It …
Michael reviewed On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honor Harrington, #1)
Honor in Trouble:
Having made him look like a fool, she's been exiled to …
The beginning of the Honorverse
5 stars
Hands down the best military SciFi I've ever read. This book was the first entry into what has become David Weber's Honorverse. It now encompasses dozens of novels, following both the titular Honor Harrington, a Commander in the Royal Manticoran Navy. The next series follows her through multiple wars to the rank of Fleet Admiral. And not a single one of them is a dud.
The first few books are a bit "Hero Captain/Hero Ship", but not too much, and it gets better later on. Weber later also veers into intergalactic politics, but I wouldn't worry too much: I think what he does show of politics will be palatable to anyone outside the outer extremes of our current political landscape.
The one slight downside of the series as a whole: Towards the end, Weber slowly reveals a massive, Galaxy-spanning conspiracy. And I just hate conspiracies in fiction, but …
Hands down the best military SciFi I've ever read. This book was the first entry into what has become David Weber's Honorverse. It now encompasses dozens of novels, following both the titular Honor Harrington, a Commander in the Royal Manticoran Navy. The next series follows her through multiple wars to the rank of Fleet Admiral. And not a single one of them is a dud.
The first few books are a bit "Hero Captain/Hero Ship", but not too much, and it gets better later on. Weber later also veers into intergalactic politics, but I wouldn't worry too much: I think what he does show of politics will be palatable to anyone outside the outer extremes of our current political landscape.
The one slight downside of the series as a whole: Towards the end, Weber slowly reveals a massive, Galaxy-spanning conspiracy. And I just hate conspiracies in fiction, but especially ones so mind-bogglingly large as the one Weber has constructed. It's not the kind of "nothing was actually as it seemed" stuff, but it was large enough to make it utterly unbelievable to me. But even the books which contain it still are good enough otherwise for me to slog through.
Also, extra fun is to be had if you're even slightly versed in the Napoleonic Wars.
Michael finished reading On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honor Harrington, #1)
On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honor Harrington, #1)
Honor in Trouble:
Having made him look like a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and …
Michael reviewed Lustrum by Robert Harris (Emperor, #2)
Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven …
A great start to an excellent trilogy about the final days of the Roman Republic
5 stars
A great series about Cicero's life in the final days of the Roman Republic. No great surprises if you know history, but Robert Harris knows how to write a history novel. Plus, the entire series is not full of battles or anything. It's rather a historical political thriller about Cicero's attempts to somehow safe the Republic.
A great series about Cicero's life in the final days of the Roman Republic. No great surprises if you know history, but Robert Harris knows how to write a history novel. Plus, the entire series is not full of battles or anything. It's rather a historical political thriller about Cicero's attempts to somehow safe the Republic.
Michael wants to read Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W. Lucas
Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael W. Lucas
A book for the hard-core Unix sysadmin, by a fellow hard-core sysadmin with decades of experience running small mail servers.
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