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Looking for a new book/series to start, and I remembered a setting description from an old gaming book (GURPS Time Travel) with the story idea of the Eternity Rangers- essentially, soldiers from all different time periods plucked by unknown forces, given missions with no explanation across time/space, and rewarded every now and then with what's essentially shore leave with a time machine. A little more in-depth here https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/Eternity%27s_Rangers Is there anything out there in this same vein?
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I'm just glad Weber lived long enough to finish his sequel to Out of the Dark. I'm serious. He made a sequel. It drops January 12th.
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Jan 3, 2021 06:38
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I read 2-3 of the earlier Honor books. Where'd he end up going in the end with everything? Carbon copy tactical genius kids, or is 930 year old Honor Harrington still saving the multiverse?
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Jan 22, 2021 05:49
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I just read Germline by T.C. McCarthy, and enjoyed it. Anyone read the sequels and know if they're any good?
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May 20, 2021 21:34
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Maybe it's recency bias as I finished it this year, but the books were awful enough and so was she, that I'd say Lenie Clarke
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Jun 25, 2021 03:16
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Well....that's something.
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Jun 25, 2021 18:18
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Goddamnit are you people actually going to succeed in getting me to read my second Honor book
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Dec 14, 2021 16:37
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Rocket-equipped motorcycles have a long and storied career in cinema, like in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and of course, 'Megaforce'... I wonder how much of this capability today's Navy retains as more and more gets pushed onshore and towards contractors, but as recently as the 80s/90s Yellowstone-class tenders had full foundries, machine shops and every sort of craft imaginable, down to seamstresses. They'd make casts of broken pump casings to pour and machine new ones. At the end of Desert Storm, the two that were deployed (Cape Cod and Acadia) ended up being the deployed Navy's recycling receptacle for aluminum cans. Holds full of the things, stinking in the heat. They decided to melt them down, use the aluminum to make huge ship logo plaques for every single person on board, then broke the mold. Nice little lemonade from lemons story. Helped that it made the admiral that visited pretty put out that he couldn't get one 
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Dec 15, 2021 02:33
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I loved Hammer's Slammers. Thin pastiches of Greek epics in fusion powered tanks were extremely my poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2021 06:03
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Was that the one with the insanely predatory ecosystem? Where basically even the palm tree equivalent shot you dead full of spikes?
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Fivemarks posted:I went down an SM Stirling rabbithole while trying to get ready for looking at Drake's writings, and, uh Guns of the South was Turtledove.
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