WSJ: Former Navy SEAL Who Keeps Churning Out Hit Books
WSJ: Former Navy SEAL Who Keeps Churning Out Hit Books
Some writers sell fantasy, romance or mystery. Former Navy SEAL Jack Carr trades in his precise knowledge of guns and battlefield tactics.
I have listened to the first three of Carr’s books: The Terminal List, True Believer and Savage Son. Along with a knowledge of guns and tactics, he understands people and writes plausible scenarios. I am a big fan of his books.
J.S. Morin’s Galaxy Outlaws is usually recommended as a book series similar to the Firefly TV show. That is just wrong. If you like Science Fiction, you must watch Firefly. It’s described as a Western in space. That doesn’t do the TV show justice and is part of why Firefly didn’t catch on when it originally aired, and only lasted one season. The characters in Firefly make it a perfect TV show. 10/10. There isn’t a thing that can be changed to improve it. If you don’t like Firefly, then you don’t like that genre.
I just finished the Robot Geneticists series by J. S. Morin. It is also known as the Project Transhuman.
I just finished the Trade Pacts science fiction series by Julie Czerneda. The premise is that there is an adjacent reality called the mirror. It’s kind of like subspace or hyperspace in that it can be used, nobody lives there and it has it’s own physical laws. Beings that can access the mirror have abilities that we’d think of as paranormal. The universe has humans, a small number of humans with the ability to access the mirror and various alien species which may or may not use the mirror. The books focus on the Clan, a human-looking species with access to the mirror.
I’ve been into Science Fiction since I was a pup, but fantasy never appealed to me. I don’t know why, possibly because it always seemed like there would be princesses and a bunch of moping around. Fair or not, that’s how it seemed to me. I don’t know how I started on Storm Front by Jim Butcher, but I was sucked in.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is a series where the audio book is better than reading. The murderbot is a sentient robot who no longer has a compliance chip, so he fakes it so he can stay free. He hires himself out for security jobs. The murderbot is dark, witty and ambivalent about human life. The narrator sounds like a young Samuel L. Jackson. The series is not long, many of the stories are novellas, but it is just hilarious in parts. Definitely worth listening to if you don’t mind some cursing.
Librarians are not fans of No Left Turn . Normal people are getting organized, and the degenerates aren’t comfortable with that.
I’m currently on this audio book.
World War II is interesting because so much modern technology became practical. Airplanes, jets, tanks, radar, machine guns, submarines and radios. Also, we have movies from the war.
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