As a massive Heinlein fan I’ll say Starship Troopers because I think that’s a fascinating discussion about what you owe your country or the price of citizenship. Since Heinlein is my favorite author I’ll pick another one as well.. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. I know he had drug issues and this book is an interesting look at the cycle of drugs and addiction and the ending was tragic but also very realistic. I like that the movie included his tribute at the end.
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Really enjoy the Safehold Saga by David Weber. Humans escape Earth in the future to hide out from civilization killing aliens on the planet of Safehold. Once there they adopt a nearly medieval lifestyle and throw away all of their tech. Skip forward 1000 years and one of the crew from the original breakaway mission is awakened in an android body to get things back on track and take the fight to the aliens. First though she has to overcome a technophobic religion that controls the entire world and help a small, struggling maritime country (basically Britain) avoid total destruction by its neighbors.
In the timeline of the books the world goes from basically a sword and sail type setting to progressing to a proto-WW1 level tech, with airships and steam power. Weber is a big sailing guy so prepare for lengthy discussions about sailing ships and the various operations needed to run a ship of the line. Also prepare for tons of side characters and scenes who are present for a chapter and then might only be mentioned again tangentially two books later.
10 books is quite a bit to sink your teeth into, though the series is on a hiatus at the moment. Books 6 and 7 are a bit of a drag, took me nearly 3 attempts to finish the series, but overall the series is quite enjoyable.
That sounds really good! Is he the one that wrote about a modern city that was sent back to 1600s?
Eric Flint (rip) wrote the 1632 series but David Weber co-wrote two of the novels 1633 and 1634. Haven't gotten around to reading 1632 though I have a few of the books.
If you want a shorter series that gives you a taste of Weber's writing I would suggest the Dahak trilogy. It starts out with the discovery of our moon being one huge, ancient spaceship that brought humans to earth 10,000 years ago and scales up into a full blown galactic war. Sadly the books end before the real alien ass kicking begins but the series is enjoyable enough that I have read it 10+ times.
There is also the Honor Harrington series by Weber, also on my To Read list, which has 15 main books so far (and like 37 in total). The publisher Baen sometimes gives away the first book in a series via a free ebook so its possible to pick it up for nothing.