Recently got some John Ringo books at a yard sale and was wanting some ideas for other Military Sci Fi book series.
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Heavily second the Lensman series and The Forever War
I really liked Neuromancer and Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. His recent stuff is basically navel gazing, weird borderline stream of conscious thought experiment stuff. I wouldn't call anything Gibson did as "military sci-fi," though. He did flee to Canada to get out of the Vietnam draft.
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan is pretty good. It's also part of a trilogy but each book gets worse. The first one, and maybe the second are worth a read, the third isn't.
I enjoyed the first season of Altered Carbon - but when they changed the lead for 2nd season I dropped off. I understand why they did it but it just ruined the feel. Poe was my favorite character was he the same in the books?
Funny thing, in the book the Poe character, the hotel itself, is Jimi Hendrix.
Edit to add: Yeah, the way that world works it's really prime for race or gender swapping. It's a theme in the books.
I have the first Altered Carbon book but haven’t read it yet.
It's good, very good. There are a couple of philosophical questions in there that actually caused me to put the book down and stare off into the distance for a while. One of them is the nature of love versus genetic drive for reproduction, and it hit home hard.