<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>Exactly. And there's a related subgenre of space opera one could call "(military) hardware porn," where the science is totally made up but the technology is lovingly described. I don't know any names, but I've flipped through a few at my local library. OK, there's post- Ringworld Jerry Pournelle . . .<br>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra">This would be people like John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc. The "grand master" of this, though, is David Weber, and his Honor Harrington metaseries*, which is actually pretty readable.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--Dan'l</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* "metaseries" both because it has books that fit in nonlinearly, and because it's metastasized.</div>