Jeremy Blackman wrote

On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Travis Butler wrote:

adventure, if you can live with the pulp prose. David Brin and C.J. 
Cherryh write wonderful "mind-expanding" books, if you like doing a lot 
of thinking... Tolkein and Conan Doyle, of course... Lois McMaster 
Bujold... anyone want to read a page or two more? <g>

Cool...another Brin fan.  And my GOD, another fan of the Miles Vorkosigan 

Yes all great stories - But  David Weber "Honor Harrington" stories are also
worth considering, nepoleonic naval tales retold as space opera with a good
background of associated politics and predjudice.  Like Bujold, Weber has the
knack of writing his heroines and heros into utterly awful situations and then
getting them out of these in believeable way

Ewan Chrystal
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