STG's

Yet another military SF book - I really like them. In this case, it is quite deep into a series (courtesy of a Webscriptions package - it's nicely priced if you like a few of the books, and a great way to introduce readers to authors and series they don't know). The RCN universe seems nice, even when starting from the middle. It's a military space opera, which has a nicely contrived explanation to allow the author to put sails in the story - they are actually used to move the ships between bubble universes with different constants, thus getting around that pesky light speed limit. The whole theme reminds me of Honor Harrington, of course (two star alliances fighting each other, space battles with a very competent commander, etc). It was a nice, reasonably quick read, and I discovered I already had bought another of the books in the series (Some Golden Harbor), which I'm currently reading.

Bolo Brigade was another enjoyable military SF with a cool super vehicle. It does remind me of Knight Rider or Airwolf in that basic sense. In this case though, the vehicles are sentient, huge super-tanks, fighting alien dinosaurs that use MechWarrior-style exoskeletons. It does sound a lot of better in the actual book - put like this it sounds ridiculous. In the book, it plays reasonably well and was a fun and quick read, with lots of action.