Glad to see you, All!

Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by Baen. I?m personal friends with two of them. Larry is one, but I?m really good mates with Tom Kratman. His wife is Panamanian and she?s become good friends with my wife as well

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Hello John Dovey!

** On Sunday 11.07.21 - 04:34, John Dovey wrote to All:

Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by
Baen. I?m personal friends with two of them. Larry is one,
but I?m really good mates with Tom Kratman. His wife is
Panamanian and she?s become good friends with my wife as
well

I see a common thing with the authors [Kratman, Correia] you
mention: military sci-fi / fantasy. I wasn't particularly
aware of that mix.

Wrt Baen, Simon&Schuster seems to be their distributor. S&S is
the slowest biz to work with. As a result, I've generally
skipped checking their catalog. And.. I see Kratman and
Correia are with Baen. No wonder they never appeared on my
radar.

Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are also a
kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too are
distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here! :D
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Glad to see you, August!

Hello John Dovey!

** On Sunday 11.07.21 - 04:34, John Dovey wrote to All:

Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by
Baen. I?m personal friends with two of them. Larry is one,
but I?m really good mates with Tom Kratman. His wife is
Panamanian and she?s become good friends with my wife as
well

I see a common thing with the authors [Kratman, Correia] you
mention: military sci-fi / fantasy. I wasn't particularly
aware of that mix.

Wrt Baen, Simon&Schuster seems to be their distributor. S&S is
the slowest biz to work with. As a result, I've generally
skipped checking their catalog. And.. I see Kratman and
Correia are with Baen. No wonder they never appeared on my
radar.

Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are also a
kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too are
distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here! :D
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Definitely a correlation ;-)
Check out David Weber as well. The Honor Harrington series. Think Hornblower, but female ? and in space ?

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Hello John Dovey!

** On Sunday 11.07.21 - 23:02, you wrote to me:

Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are
also a kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too
are distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here! :D
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Definitely a correlation ;-)
Check out David Weber as well. The Honor Harrington
series. Think Hornblower, but female ? and in space ?

He's another Baen distro - which means sucky Simon & Schuster.

:(

But, I see that some other titles of his are Tor pub. That's a
better one for me - although Tor is only available from a lone
distibutor located in British Columbia.

I really enjoyed Ringworld (Larry Niven). There was a half
decent AI drone-like cat-n-mouse hunt/fighting scene which was
pretty good.

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John Dovey wrote to August Abolins <=-

Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are also a
kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too are
distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here! :D
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Definitely a correlation ;-)
Check out David Weber as well. The Honor Harrington series. Think Hornblower, but female ? and in space ?

If you're looking for military space novels, check out the Ark Royal series
by Christopher Nuttall. Disgraced general put out to pasture captaining an antique spaceship/museum piece ends up at the forefront of a war with an unseen enemy. It's got some Battlestar Galactica vibes and is an
entertaining read.

I've read the first 3 books, which comprised the first story arc, he's continued on since then with more books.




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Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Monday 12.07.21 - 07:10, Kurt Weiske wrote to John Dovey:

If you're looking for military space novels, check out the
Ark Royal series by Christopher Nuttall. Disgraced general
put out to pasture captaining an antique spaceship/museum
piece ends up at the forefront of a war with an unseen
enemy. It's got some Battlestar Galactica vibes and is an
entertaining read.

I've read the first 3 books, which comprised the first
story arc, he's continued on since then with more books.

They sound good. Never heard of the guy.

The Ark series seems long out of print. It would be a hunter's
dream to find them all (14?) in a used bookshop.

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