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An Oblique ApproachThe series is finished.
In the last book it got imho a little to easy for the good guys.
Anything from David Weber (beware he can't keep it short. But I like massive books).
Oath of SwordsIs his fantasy series (I think the world is based/was used in an RPG-Game with David Weber as GM. But dont quote me on this. I'm not shure in this case.)
On Basilisk StationThe beginning of his Honor Harrington Series.
Its his most sucesful serie. Around 10? book in the main series and 2 spin-offs with other authors.
HaraldLiked it, would buy the next book from him (David Friedman). (Hmm, looks at amazon... No seems to be his only [fantasy] book. Dont want a
history of the penis, hope this is another author with the same name...).
The books is very amusing.
Since I am to lazy to write more I'll quote the blurbs:
An Oblique Approach
ALIEN MINDS BATTLE FOR BYZANTIUM
In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever know. .
Oath of Swords
Bahzell Bahnakson of the hrandani is no knight in shining armor and doesn't want to mix with anybody else's problems, let alone the War God's. Unfortunately, he isn't going to have any choice...
On Basilisk Station
INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON
Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.
Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.
The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.
Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.
But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.
Harald
He Didn’t Get the Surrender Memo!
It’s the perfect storm for conquest: a dysfunctional kingdom reels under a weak monarch. A powerful order of warrior maidens turns to infighting after suddenly losing its charismatic leader. Worst of all, a disciplined and blooded imperial army stands ready to invade and dominate. If ever a moment called for grit, competence, and an utter lack of wishful thinking it is now. Enter Harald of the Vales. Family man and teller of tales. Warrior’s warrior. It’s time the Empire got one thing straight: the land of Kaerlia will never be its for the taking.
An intricate and thrilling debut fantasy novel from libertarian prof (and son of economist Milton Friedman) and Society for Creative Anachronism grandee, David D. Friedman.
Btw. David Weber has more than two series (alone and collaborations), I only picket two examples.
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