My abbreviated SF list (no fantasy, sorry)
David Weber: Military & Traditional SF (Honor Harrington series + many more)
John Ringo: Mostly Military SF (March Upcountry w/ David Weber + new Hymn Before Battle series)
David Gerrold: Good Mix of SF (Chtorr series + more)
Leo Frankowski: (Cross Time Engineer Series + others)
David Sherman/Dan Cragg: Military SF (Starfist series)
Bill Baldwin (not the actor): Military SF (Helmsman series....not new, i know)
Elizabeth Moon: (Already mentioned a few times but worth repeating here)
David Drake: (Again, mentioned earlier: Try 'With the Lightnings'...a new series that is more SF than most of his books...such as Hammer's Slammers)
To give you a taste of some of my favorite 'old school' authors: Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, H. Beam Piper, Gordon Dickson, John Steakley's 'Armor', Frank Herbert's 'Dune' (the rest of the books were crap, admit it), Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' (again, don't bother with the rest of the books in that series)
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My abbreviated SF list (no fantasy, sorry) David Weber: Military & Traditional SF (Honor Harrington series + many more) John Ringo: Mostly Military SF (March Upcountry w/ David Weber + new Hymn Before Battle series) David Gerrold: Good Mix of SF (Chtorr series + more) Leo Frankowski: (Cross Time Engineer Series + others) David Sherman/Dan Cragg: Military SF (Starfist series) Bill Baldwin (not the actor): Military SF (Helmsman series....not new, i know) Elizabeth Moon: (Already mentioned a few times but worth repeating here) David Drake: (Again, mentioned earlier: Try 'With the Lightnings'...a new series that is more SF than most of his books...such as Hammer's Slammers) To give you a taste of some of my favorite 'old school' authors: Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, H. Beam Piper, Gordon Dickson, John Steakley's 'Armor', Frank Herbert's 'Dune' (the rest of the books were crap, admit it), Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' (again, don't bother with the rest of the books in that series)