pick(1996) A battle-hardened crew is assigned security for settlers of a new colony world. What looks like a milk run turns into an endurance trial when the world turns out to be full of flora, fauna, and enemy combatants that want them dead, colonists and soldiers and all. The ending felt abrupt, but overall it's a very good example of the kind of thing that David Drake does very well. Not usually my sort of thing but I enjoyed this one.
RamsFan1963 I remember reading this years ago when I was on a military science fiction kick. Few authors do this kind of story better than Drake. 3d
swynn @RamsFan1963 I read the first two Hammer's Slammers books in high school and liked them much, but military sf has never been a large share of my reading diet. Every once in a while I'll pick up one of Drake's books and think “Oh yeah he's really good at this.“ What are some of your other favorites by him? 3d
RamsFan1963 @swynn I've enjoyed all the Hammer's Slammers books I've read, although I haven't read the whole series. I liked Lt. Leary, Commanding, Ranks of Bronze, Killer (he cowrote with Karl Edward Wagner), Time Safari, and the Northworld Trilogy 3d
swynn @RamsFan1963 Of those, I've read “Killer“, which I read in my early twenties and liked much, and the Northworld Trilogy, which I read only a couple of years ago after I'd gotten it on Kindle for nothing or maybe a little more and liked it too. Maybe I'll pick up Lt. Leary sometime in the new year. Thanks for the recs! 2d
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