The Monster Hunter International series by Larry Correia – basically Larry started this as a series of posts on the old The Firing Line forums and people liked it so much he got picked up as an author. An absolute must read for gun owners, it’s basically “what if all those fairy tales were real and the Government hides them from the public for a reason? Oh, and you can get paid to kill monsters?”
Book 1 is here: https://amzn.to/47YSXhp (paperback) and it’s also available in other formats (kindle: https://amzn.to/4a1Weye)
You can also download the ebook for free from Baen: https://www.baen.com/monster-hunter-international.html
The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
Another “what if” series by Larry, this one is “what if magic was real and started showing up in the mid 19th century? How would the world have changed?” The series takes place in the 1930s where Berlin was destroyed after WWI, Japan is on the move, taking over the Pacific, and ex-con Jake Sullivan is a private detective who can manipulate gravity.
Book 1 is here: https://amzn.to/3N9AJSh (kindle version: https://amzn.to/47Ey7UV)
Other series worth getting into:
- Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
- Bob Lee Swagger series by Stephen Hunter
- Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills
- Will Robie series by David Baldacci
Single books worth reading:
ARMOR by John Steakley
This is a fantastic book featuring a power armor clad hero who, fleeing his destiny, is thrust into the horrors of war over and over again. Unlike the typical ‘glory is found in war!’ approach, this is a sober, horrific experience for the protagonist. People who’ve read this swear by it like those who love Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
John Steakley also wrote VAMPIRE$, which was turned into a B movie starring James Woods (who did a hilarious job!)
Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
This is one of the classics of the Cyberpunk genre, and pretty much everything Walter Jon Williams writes is absolute fire, so you need to read this if you haven’t. Written in the late 80s, it’s a dystopian book about how the Corporations went to space, declared war on Earth, and won. Turns out when you can drop rocks from orbit, it’s difficult for a terrestrial based government to fight back effectively. Neural implants, wetware, chems, space stations, transnational corpos, industrial espionage and more.
If you played Cyberpunk 2077, the Panzer in that game is an homage to the Panzers used for smuggling in Hardwired.
Supposedly Voice of the Whirlwind is a sequel to Hardwired, but I must have missed the connection.
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