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If you want a book that's very Starship Troopers with a much better story, maybe even a bit of a Metroid vibe, read Armor by John Steakley.
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Even better, develop a game about it and have people play that on Twitch. But, without telling them, set up the real thing somewhere which they are actually controlling. Perhaps not unlike the plot of a certain Masterpiece sci-fi novel.
For everyone asking, I'll post the book link. Just know this is a HUGE spoiler for the novel so if you care about that kind of thing, I warned you. Link to the book
Ender's Game, Revelation Space, Altered Carbon and a few other great series out of there have dedicated a lot to overcoming time dilation.
Joe Haldeman tackled it head on in The Forever War Amazon link, a fantastic book that as a fan of similar stuff, you might like it!
Or better yet, give them a link to get the book the right way. ;)
The Forever War by Haldeman https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312536631/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zTFiDbR3EQFT2
Amazon Product Description: The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
Hey dude! I'll chime in here if that's okay, I've been getting some Xbox owners in my family some stuff this year too. :)
I've nailed down a few great ones that I'm really excited to see them open up, and I think an awesome trifecta I landed on is "Bioshock: the Collection", "Skyrim Special Edition", and "Assassin's Creed: the Ezio Collection".
It's a nice group of FPS action, third-person action, and sense of giant RPG adventure, but any one of them alone will be awesome!
I'd also recommend looking into a couple fun books, if you're interested? For instance, you've got "Halo: Mythos", which is a fully illustrated, beautiful 200 page in-depth Halo universe guide that just came out recently. It's only ~$22 on Amazon, hardcover, and I think that would be an amazing gift!
There's also some cool clothing and accessories on this site, J!nx that might be worth browsing.
(P.S. I've been obsessed the last couple of weeks with vetting christmas gifts, and I'm happy to hang out with you here and shoot ideas back and forth until we land on something!)
The Expeditionary Force series has all the books available to read for free for Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and the first audiobook for the Columbus Day (book1) is free too. So you can read and listen to the first book for free to decide if you want to continue the series. Books 2-5 are available on Audible for $7.95, cheaper than credits, so don't use a credit to buy them.
https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book-ebook/dp/B01AIGC31E
Kindle Unlimited is $9.99/mos. I think it's worth subscribing for at least 6 months because I could easily find 10 books and audiobooks per month that I was able to enjoy. After clearing off all the books I was interested in reading/listening too, the subscription is probably of less value and not worth it for most people.
The Bobiverse Series is another excellent science fiction series on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/
Expeditionary Force
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AIGC31E
Dont read the reviews... lots of salty people about the success of the series.
The basics of the plot is aliens show up, and realistically the earth gets fucked in like 30 minutes. our protagonist along with 100,000 humans get shipped offworld to be an ground-pounding force, but really they get used more like... peace keepers. series of events happen, and plucky humans become space pirates. can't say what the events are without spoiling it, but it is a bit of a slow roll and then BAM it goes really well.
I recommend the audiobooks, R.C. Bray is a phenomenal narrator with a good range in voice acting and really brings things to life. The audiobooks by themselves are expensive, so I suggest getting audible subscription but there is a loophole, if you buy the kindle book you can get the audiobook for very little.
in that link there should be an option labeled:
(Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $7.49) With the kindle price being like $2.99
If magic is more your cup of tea, I also have a great series on that, its about a guy transported to another world but he is no hero, instead of a dungeon lord.
If space scifi realism is your cup of tea I got another series too.
If anyones looking for a fun Sci-Fi book and has an ereader
"Old Man's War" is on sale on amazon for $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B000SEIK2S
I think its also on sale at googles store
Lmao just realized I got the names mixed up. The book I was referring to is called “The Forever War”. Like the shitty Chris Pratt movie, it also has a sci fi war setting (and a similar name) so that’s probably why I got the two confused
https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0312536631
PSA everyone: the book is quite different than the movie and is my most favourite Sci-Fi read. It focuses on the changes a soldier goes through from new recruit to war vet and the influence of instructors. Please do yourself a favour and read the book. It is AMAZING.
Old Bob Heinlein is an amazing author.
https://www.amazon.ca/Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441783589
come on now, you botched the name of one of his most famous novels in a funny way, misspelled his name twice, then admitted you never even read the book on which this sub is founded.
that is 3/3 hilarious.
here you go: https://www.amazon.ca/Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441783589
Have you read any of Heinlein's novels?
/u/Fenris447 is right for recommending Halo: Mythos. It's an amazing guidebook that details the Halo Universe by recapping more than a decades' worth of stories/events. It's a great companion book and also filled with awesome illustrations.
They had exactly this in Blindsight. The main thing that helps us is that predators never eat their prey to extinction, for obvious reasons. And the only way to avoid that is to maintain a lot more prey animals than predators. (There’s actually a mathematical formula for how big both populations need to be, called Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations.)
In the book, it turns out that we accidentally killed them off despite them being much smarter than us, because we tended to group together and build things, but they never developed a society or had to develop technology, and by an accident of evolution they had epileptic seizures when they saw right angles (crucifix glitch—turns out a dim memory of them is where our vampire myths came from).
In the book we bring them back to life to help with certain things because of their intelligence, and we think we can use the “crucifix glitch” to keep them under control despite them being so much more intelligent. 😬
Oh man, read Blindsight by Peter Watts. He has humanity revive a creature that was the basis for our vampire myths. In his book, it was actually a creature that evolved to hunt and eat humans. They’re stronger than us, faster than us, and much smarter than us. They’re better at navigating extremely complex scenarios, which is why we brought them back from extinction despite them still wanting to eat us. But they also don’t form societies so they never had the scientific progress that we had, which depends on our culture. They also by chance never evolved to deal with right angles (as an accident of evolution—the “crucifix glitch”), so we accidentally killed them off when we started living in buildings instead of caves, despite us being the obviously inferior prey animal.
I was referring to Robert Heinlein's book, but thanks for the irony.
It's a fantastic book. https://www.amazon.com/Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0312536631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+forever+war&qid=1629932361&sr=8-1
And apparently it's part of a series. Nice.
Sorry, i 2asnt too ckear. it's a book set in the present day describing first contact and onward exploration of space... Kinda. I dont want to give too much away
Craig Alanson Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force Book 1)
This is a must it now spans 8 books including a couple of novellas as side stories but still important to the over all arc, the audible series breastfed by RC Bray is amazing I have listeners to them all over the last couple of years can’t recommend highly enough.
Amazon kindle link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book-ebook/dp/B01AIGC31E/ref=nodl_
Audible link https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Columbus-Day-Audiobook/B01NAE4H74
It always goes back to the very beginning with Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach. The man set the stage for what would evolve into an epic saga. First timers should also check out Contact Harvest which shows how the Human-Covenant War came to be.
> the amount of books is a little intimidating.
Definitely a ton of lore to explore at this point!
As long as you don't mind spoilers, there is also Halo: Mythos which is an amazing guidebook that details the Halo Universe by recapping nearly 18 years of stories/events. It's really great and full of awesome illustrations.
And I low-key called you an "utter twat" followed by an "asshat", only to have you think me reasonable. 😘
All about dat presentation.
I haven't actually read much of them, I'll definitely check it out.
Also something for you to kill time on- Expeditionary Force series, The Gam3 series, The Undying Mercenary series, and the Magic 2.0 series. All are science-fiction series that are fairly original, and with decreasing degrees (ExForce most prominent, Magic 2.0 hardly existent) of overarching series plots.
Seriously- if you haven't read Expeditionary Force, you really, really need to. Plus, it's like 10 books at this point and will tie you up for a while.
Mythos is pretty much a summary of everything Halo with pretty pictures.
Maybe try reading it yourselfand impressing him with your newfound knowledge?
> Do you think philosophy stands a future at all
Philosophy today is stuck.
Schopenhauer's takedown of Hegel was a total knockout, but he also took out Kant and left Hobbes victorious, and philosophy's collective response to date has largely been to pretend Schopenhauer never happened. This is because they're terrified of the real implications of the post-Schopenhauer world, because they see the post-Schopenhauer world as a Hobbesian-Nietzschean world, which they refuse to explore.
IMO, the first actual post-Nietzschean philosopher was Robert Heinlein. Yes, a science fiction author.
Western philosophy is going to have to adopt a little sliver of confusicianism; it needn't be illiberal, but it does need to address civic virtue and the relationship between the individual and the community. That's the only way to move past Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Hobbes. Philosophy needs to admit they're right, and then use it as a foundation to build a society based on challenging people to be more than what Hobbes says they are.
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One way or the other, the future is Hobbesian. That much is not up for debate. The SJWs are Hobbesian, they're just illiberal.
I recommend Old Man's War
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The beginning line is awesome: John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
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It's part of an amazing series and they are all excellent books.
Check out Blindsight by Peter Watts—it's very much in this vein of "spacetravel to a new planet" but (1) it's hard SF, which can turn some people off, and (2) the writing is a bit strange. Not bad, though—I honestly find the writing to be impeccable, but I feel like it could be off-putting to people who are more used to traditional writing styles.
1) If your unit found out then, yes you would be called that, that is how the military works :)
2) It's random and funny and I really like the series, https://smile.amazon.com/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book-ebook/dp/B01AIGC31E?sa-no-redirect=1.
3) If you like Sci Fi with humor and an asshole AI beer can. Pm an email address an I will send you the first book on Kindle.
Ah it's a really good book, and fairly short. There's a whole series of sequels and parallel books in the same universe written by Orsen Scott Card, but Ender's Game is the 1st and best of the lot. There's a movie about it too but it's not terribly good. https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Ender-Quintet-Orson-Scott/dp/0812550706/
edit: you honestly don't need to read any of the other books unless you really want to. The 1st book stands alone.
I just finished Armor by John Steakley. He only wrote two books that I know of and I really enjoyed them both.
Expeditionary Force: (5 book series) This book is more about hostile take over/ alien invasions more than being stranded on a planet. But it has space battles and a talking beer can..
https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book-ebook/dp/B01AIGC31E/ref=nodl_