I'm well into the 5th book of the Aeon14 series.
Anyway... I am still LOVING the series. And I've become very impressed with its author. Yes, it has a decidedly “leading female character” bent, but that's fine. It's a nice change. And, yes, as Leo presumed when briefly surveying its book covers and plot summaries, it's on the “pulpy” side. But boy is it fun! And having seen how well this author Malorie (M.D.Cooper) has handled things up to this point, I'm quite excited to eventually go back in the timeline to books that she later wrote but which occurred earlier, to learn about “the sentience wars” and the first rounds of human colonization. There's so much here, and so far it has all been well worth my time.
The event in the 5th book that spurred me to post this was just another of the great many “new things” that I'm seeing for the first time. It occurred to me that that's the reason I read science fiction - to be treated to truly new ideas and technologies - and this series keeps the new tech coming - one thing after another. And now cheesy made up crap but real “believable” innovation that is given sufficient backup to be satisfying.
The best overview I've found so far, to give you a sense for just how much is here and waiting for you if you're interested and if this fits the style of Sci-Fi that you enjoy, is this page at fandom.com. I think that the best place to begin is “The Intrepid Saga”, with “Outsystem.” That series of three books is followed in timeline and character sequence by the eleven-book “The Orion War” series. And... if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, everything is there both in eBook and Audible formats.
And again, yes, I get it that this style is not for everyone. Not everyone loved my previous discovery of “The Silver Ships” - but a great many people did. So I wanted to plant another flag here with this discovery (which I recently mentioned on Security Now). If this style is for you, you'll be glad to have found it, too.
(I've been slowed down for the moment since I have less interest in reading when I'm tackling some large coding problem. The technology for autonomous server-side code-signing using a hardware HSM turns out to be something that everyone else appears to have punted on, falling back to shelling out to Microsoft's “signtool”. I could do that, too... but GRC is going to need this technology for the long term since SpinRite 7+ and Beyond Recall will always need to have Windows-based boot-prep technology. Shelling out to “signtool” is so ugly that it will only be a last resort, and at this point it's become a bit of a crusade, since I'm well placed to figure out how to do this, then share the results with the much wider coding community.)
Anyway... I am still LOVING the series. And I've become very impressed with its author. Yes, it has a decidedly “leading female character” bent, but that's fine. It's a nice change. And, yes, as Leo presumed when briefly surveying its book covers and plot summaries, it's on the “pulpy” side. But boy is it fun! And having seen how well this author Malorie (M.D.Cooper) has handled things up to this point, I'm quite excited to eventually go back in the timeline to books that she later wrote but which occurred earlier, to learn about “the sentience wars” and the first rounds of human colonization. There's so much here, and so far it has all been well worth my time.
The event in the 5th book that spurred me to post this was just another of the great many “new things” that I'm seeing for the first time. It occurred to me that that's the reason I read science fiction - to be treated to truly new ideas and technologies - and this series keeps the new tech coming - one thing after another. And now cheesy made up crap but real “believable” innovation that is given sufficient backup to be satisfying.
The best overview I've found so far, to give you a sense for just how much is here and waiting for you if you're interested and if this fits the style of Sci-Fi that you enjoy, is this page at fandom.com. I think that the best place to begin is “The Intrepid Saga”, with “Outsystem.” That series of three books is followed in timeline and character sequence by the eleven-book “The Orion War” series. And... if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, everything is there both in eBook and Audible formats.
And again, yes, I get it that this style is not for everyone. Not everyone loved my previous discovery of “The Silver Ships” - but a great many people did. So I wanted to plant another flag here with this discovery (which I recently mentioned on Security Now). If this style is for you, you'll be glad to have found it, too.
