This isn’t for lit (All Quiet in the Western Front) or for pure pulp (Mack Bolan) but books somewhere in the middle. Authors like Larry Correia, John Ringo, Matthew Reilly.What are some good and/or silly books on operating and such.Also, looking for submarine recommendations. The sub parts of Red Storm Rising were my fav.
>>25622181Ever read dogs of war?
>>25622181John Ringo is slop.
Well OP im looking for similar books so I'll help out. several of my recommendations lean toward the /x/ side of /k/ lit, but if you like Larry Correia you might like them too. Old Man's War series by John Scalzi. Great scifi, interesting combat with various aliens, and cool scifi tech/weapons. Primitive War series by Ethan Pettus. Jurassic park + the Vietnam War basically. Savage Wars series by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. Great scifi again. Normal humans in the future vs. fuckedup off shoots of humanity that genetically, mechanically, or cyberneticly altered themselves. Alien: Bug Hunt. Anthology that expands on the Alien Universe, even the origins of the Pulse Rifle. Leviathan by Greig Beck. The megalodon is still out there...or Primordia. Time travel back to age of the dinosaurs, and the titanaboa.or The Siberian Incident. Tales of the Crypto-Hunter by R. Gualtieri. They are alright, people hunt cryptids, not as good as MHI, but it's something. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. I know, not exactly /k/ but he does make alot of bombs. it's just a dumb fun book series. The train one sucks but the rest are entertaining. My current job gives me alot of time to listen to audible while I work so Im always looking for more to listen to, especially stuff similar to Larry Correia's work, ive already gone through pretty much all of his stuff.
>>25622184Scalzi is a hack and Old Man's War is a vastly inferior direct ripoff of Joe Haldeman's Forever War.
Red Badge of Courage is a short, easy, and enjoyable read
>mack bolan>friendly old couple had this entire mack bolan set for 3 bucks a book >think ill get around to gettting all of them later>old man dies, wife sells the store, its now a shitty e vape storeFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCK
>>25622181Reacher novels are slop, but entertaining and fast reads.>>25622186Based classic appreciator. "The Rifle" by Gary Paulsen is slept on and only ~100 pages.>InB4 some anon claims it is a grabber book.
>>25622184>Alien: Bug Hunt. Anthology that expands on the Alien Universe, even the origins of the Pulse Rifle.I instantly recognized and loved the "Tales of the Gun" format. Hicks' backstory was good too. The one by Heather Graham S U C K E D. It was convoluted, full of plot holes and the pacing was rushed as Hell.
>>25622181Anyone read any recently published scifi /k/ books lately? Or any books that are set in "strangereal" worlds similar to Ace Combat?
>>25622190If you can get past some of the political content, Harry Turtledove writes some amazing alternative history, and a fair bit of scifi too.
>>25622191Ah, Harry Turtledove. Master of fascinating concepts executed poorly, with dialog and characters that make you feel like he's trolling you with how bad they are. His prose is so bad it's a humiliation ritual trying to finish his books.
I like Marc Alan Edelheit’s sci-fi stuff. He has one one about a cruiser and one as a small fleet. Some of the battles sound very samey as space battles are often just launch missiles and counters and then wait. But overall very fun stuff.His fantasy series is very legion phalanx battles and I enjoy that too.
>>25622190Red State Mars
>>25622181Literally anything by Jack Vance or Gene Wolf, everyone else iit has never touched tits
>>25622181>TOM CLANCY'S PREGNANCY SIMULATOR 2K26: EVEN THE SUBMARINE IS PREGNANT
>>25622192The corny, overdone dialogue is great, ESPECIALLY in the Southern Victory books. It really is a humiliation ritual.
Red Phoenix by Larry Bond, and Arc Light by Eric Larry
>>25622181i literally just bought the entire (fiction) bibliography of frederick forsyth yesterday, so i cant really recommend it yet but the guy wrote the day of the jackal so i guess it fits.currently reading debt of honor btw
>>25622181Redliners by David Drake definitely counts. Also Hammer's Slammers
>>25622181This one has a few good battle scenes, but has a bit more of a yappy philosopher MC.
>>25622181I still haven’t quite figured out whether Tom would be the smuggest fucker alive or absolutely fuckass mad about Russia being incompetent were he still alive.He would definitely be said about the dropping birth rate meaning less fuel for his fetish though.
>>25622183Nah. The Polsleen series is the absolute peak of HFY.>slopJohn Halderman's writings are pure boomerslop.
>>25622181>books somewhere in the middle.
>>25622197>humiliation ritual Yeah.>oy vey goyim don't you know protesting migrants flooding into your countries is EVUL and all white countries are guilty of what one white region did oy vey goyim ignore Israel doing the same but far worseHarry has absolutely zero idea how real life works, 99% of his scenarios would result in total kike death once the truth came to life who was causing all the problems.
>>25622203I can tell you he’d flip his shit over the current Republican push to support Russia.
>>25622181Ringo has a few good series but as far as Baen Books authors go I like david drake and eric flint (RIP) a lot better desu.
>>25622203>He would definitely be said about the dropping birth rate meaning less fuel for his fetish though.Based preggo-fetishist Tom. I still find it fucking insane that the moment in RSR where T-55s are sent to attack NATO positions, is effectively played for laughs to demonstrate just how fucking far the Russian forces have fallen - and that was a hilarious joke.....in 1985. >>25622207Totally>>25622196hello benis>>25622199Fist of God is good fun.
>Rifleman Dodd by CS Forester>The Defence of Duffer's Drift by ED Swinton>The Defense of Hill 781 by James R McDonough>Nightmare on Wazir Street>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig>Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes>Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
>>25622181These books are generally young adult fiction slop, no realism whatsoever. The British authors can write, but they can't tell a rifle from a shotgun so you must pass on them. Americans just write muh democracy (tm) "patriotic" propaganda (not surprising as the books are directed at young adults and we DO NOT want them to get any ideas, do we?). It's generally garbage in all other regards as well.Anyway, I did enjoy The Bourne Identity and Eye of the Needle. (anything worth more than a penny was already adopted to film, duh). DO NOT make a mistake with McCarthy btw, No Country for Old Men is a terrific movie but an abysmally idiotic book; they were already scraping the barrel with this. The same with Reacher.(Heinlein had some funny ideas, like this chick martial-arts sci-fi assassin who was discarding pistols as they were making her slower and less effective kek. This is the unrealistic slop I am talking about. You will be losing any immersion all the time).
>>25622181>John Ringo>Tom ClancyPulpActual>somewhere in the middlemight be the Master And Commander series>>25622182FpbpFrederick Forsyth writes much better than ClancyFist Of God is S tier military fiction>>25622199Fist Of God, anon
>>25622181What do you think about the Paksennarion/Vatta's War series (11B written by ex-USMC, since she served at Quantico then HQMC, sounds a but POGgy to me, even though All Marines Are Riflemen) by Elizabeth Moon, or le Carré's Smiley novels (intel officer written by an intel officer)>>25622211> /k/ works are YA slopYeah. Look at the age and maturity upon enlistment of your average 11B, and you get the target audience.
Great thread. This summer I decided to read only boomer paperbacks. Clancy, Cussler, Flynn, and Cornwall have been the main authors. This experiment has actually rekindled my love of reading. Something a good action/adventure story is what an anon needs.
>>25622185>dude gay space elves LMAOold man's war is superior
if you want a submarine book read Das Boot.
>>25622211Goddamn this board has a lot of worthless foreigners.
>>25622308>le Carré's Smiley novelsGood actual spycraft, atrocious proseThere is a single sentence in Honourable Schoolboy with, I think, over forty clauses separated by commas and brackets and em-dashes. A fucking headache to read.
>>25622228>Fist of God enjoyer I kneel.
>>25622181Always gonna have to go with my goat Armorbe warned though half the book is literally just some han-solo suave ripoff, but the other half is really good imo for a pulp.
