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Military SF (MSF) has been a popular staple of SF for some time, including authors like Heinlein, the Dorsai novels by Gordon R. Dickson, the Honor Harrington novels by Weber, most of David Drake's books, and the Posleen War series by John Ringo to mention just a few. One reason they are popular is because war provides a good setting for dramatic stories and combat action, and a good opportunity to explore a larger universe and different races and cultures. They have also proven to be one of the...

I was going to write a post about military SF next, but decided to put out a (slightly) smaller one about space opera first. Space opera and military SF have a fair amount in common, but space opera tends to operate on a grander scale, is usually less focused on fighting, and is usually more inventive in its SF elements. In many respects Space Opera represents the core of SF, its ideal form, at least to many fans. All of the examples given below are series, and usually quite well known; in my...

This time I'm recommending long running series (at least 5 books minimum), both F & SF. Most are going be fairly well known, it's hard for a good long running series to be obscure. Note that one of the books I recommended last week, Hounded by Kevin Hearne, would also have qualified for this weeks rec's, since it will have 6 books in the series by the end of this month.

Also, if anyone is confused about what order the books in a series should be read, feel free to ask. Bujold's...

(The first half of this post are all superhero/meta-human related independently published books)

Wearing the Cape, Marion G. Harmon
This is the start of a popular series about a world where superheroes exist and are well known. They are celebrities, with all the paparazzi issues that entails, and usually try to conceal their identities. The MC is a young woman about to start college when she is a victim of a terrorist attack that causes her to undergo a superhero breakthrough....