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The story follows a young soldier, and later officer, through his military career and the war with the 'bugs' (analogous to communists), with occasional flashbacks to his school and family life before the military. Heinlein's Starship Troopers examines a multitude of themes, most notably, a militaristic, crypto-fascist world government that limits citizenship, voting and career rights unless you do federal service. The Cassandra Project, with Mike Resnick (2012).Main themes: Politics, Hubris, Isolation, Dystopian futures, Post-apocalypse, Civilization & cultures, Archaeology, Xeno-archaeology, First contact, Ambiguity. He includes many unpredictable plot twists, and also teases ideas that he never fully answers, leaving the reader to extrapolate from the available info and come up with their own conclusions. While this is a common theme in his works, the character and plot developments make each story unique enough that it does not feel too repetitive. The basic premise that McDevitt comes back to is human first contact with alien species, be that through actual physical contact, or the ruins and remains of long extinct civilizations.

#Omega my reading list series#

With 2 long-running series and many stand-alone novels, it is hard to write a short summary about what makes these stories so good. Multiple series and stand alones by Jack Mcdevitt Main themes: Politics, Militarism, Class divides, Class war, Colonization, Einstein-Rosen bridge

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Also, in this instance, the TV series is actually pretty good. I may be off on this point, but I am only a couple of books in so that's about it for this one but it is amazing so far.

There is also an underlying story about a vast conspiracy that seems to involve genetic experiments and something called the 'protomolecule'. Priorities begin to change once a giant ring is discovered which acts as a wormhole and gives access to 1300 other such rings, each with its own star system on the other end.

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The tensions and conflict between Mars and Earth as the major powers in the Solar system, and the inhabitants of the asteroid belt who are trying to form their own government and break free from the oppression and mistreatment of the major players. This series follows the patterns of amity and enmity between 3 main groupings of humans across the Solar system, Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance. That attention to detail is what makes this one of my favourite literary universes of all time. John Hemry served in the US military, and he brings a lot of that knowledge to his work. Major themes: Leadership, Strategy, Tactics, Law of armed conflict, Hero worship. Since it has been 100 years, he is now the longest serving officer, due to this, and his legend which has been somewhat exaggerated, he finds himself as a Fleet Commander tasked with living up to his reputation and ending the war. Unfortunately, decent military leadership, strategy and tactics are mostly a lost art.

A series that is currently at 17 books, including sequels and prequel series, A young junior officer awakes from his stasis escape pod to find 100 years have passed while he was drifting among the detritus of his last battle and his heroic final stand has become the stuff of legends.