The Fantasy Review’s list of 7 Military Sci-Fi Books With Epic Warfare.
Outriders (Outriders, #1) by Jay Posey
From the blurb:
Captain Lincoln Suh died on a Wednesday. And things only got harder from there.
Snatched out of special operations and thrown headfirst into a secretive new unit, Lincoln finds himself as the team leader for the 519th Applied Intelligence Group, better known as the Outriders. And his first day on the job brings a mission with the highest possible stakes…
Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War, #1) by Elizabeth Moon
From the blurb:
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family’s misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down…
Armor by John Steakley
From the blurb:
The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee—the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft…
Star Corps (The Legacy Trilogy, #1) by Ian Douglas
From the blurb:
In the future,
earth’s warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains …
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An — a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion…
Into the Storm (Destroyermen, #1) by Taylor Anderson
From the blurb:
Pressed into service when World War 2 breaks out in the Pacific, USS Walker—a Great War–era destroyer—finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, heads Walker into a squall for cover. They emerge somewhere else…
Germline (The Subterrene War, #1) by T.C. McCarthy
From the blurb:
Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. Also: secret military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (slang).
War is Oscar Wendell’s ticket to greatness. A reporter for The Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan…
Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1) by Gordon R. Dickson
From the blurb:
Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe…
