Looking for books set in the future of warfare?

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

A lot of Dean Ing's stories are at least at the border of your area of interest. He has also written some non-fiction articles about futuristic weapon systems. "The Ransom of Black Stealth One" has a very Clancy-ish feel to it. It is also one of my favorite novels and Ing would be in my top 3 or 4 favorite SF writers.

Another promising fellow in this category is Michael Z. Williamson.

 

[J-Sun]

Another where the OP hasn't been seen for 11 months but, if the OP happens to still lurk, this is a tricky suggestion because I'm not entirely recommending it. Linda Nagata has written a couple of stories and a trilogy of novels which began well but became melodramatic and silly to me. Still, they've gotten good notices from others and, assuming you don't want general far future space opera mil SF but actual near future extrapolations of plausible combat (as Hal Clement is to planetary exploration, so X is to combat rather than as Doc Smith is to space travel, so X is to combat) then it would perfectly fit the bill.

Linda Nagata - The Red: First Light (random review; no endorsement implied)

Oh yeah - an even better thing to link to (duh) would be an excellent story as a free sample. The novels are told from Shelley's point of view, with Delphi around at times. This story is told from Delphi's point of view with Shelley around at times. So the novels are quite different but this definitely gives the idea of how things go from her side and you can infer his (much more action-oriented and danger-filled) side.

Codename: Delphi

 

[Woofdog2]

I dredged up a number of these older threads reading through the forum for the first time - I often just don't notice dates, and in some cases had possible suggestions which otherwise were not mentioned in the thread (and thus could be value-adding).

 

[J-Sun]

I dredged up a number of these older threads reading through the forum for the first time - I often just don't notice dates, and in some cases had possible suggestions which otherwise were not mentioned in the thread (and thus could be value-adding).

Dredging up old threads is considered perfectly fine and, certainly, adding suggestions is. I just always feel funny about them personally because, for instance, in this case, I'm not sure who I'm replying to. Sometimes people do get confused and think they're responding to the OP for sure, and I just think it's good to point out when they're old. They do still work for whoever's reading them if they're interested in the subject, though.

 

[BAYLOR]

I do lots of thread revivals myself.

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Yes, mea culpa. I often don't notice the date of the OP. All my time travelling leaves me confused. /me thumbs through itenarary. Lesse, if this is Saturday, this must be 2016.

 

[Rodders]

I love necroposting. It's nostalgic.

 

[BAYLOR]

I love necroposting. It's nostalgic.

Because you can never keep a good thread down.

 

[Beamer01]

Even though its a old thread there are newer military scifi writers out there now. John Ringo, David Weber (as previously mentioned), Christopher G. Nuttal, David Drake, Timothy Zahn, Vaughn Heppner, Ian Douglas, Jack Campbell, Jay Allen, Jean Johnson, Joshua Dalzelle, Marko Kloos, Michael G Thomas, Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd, Raymond L Weil, Ryk Brown, just to pick a few names off my Kindle.