Book List

This year, I have five books on my Amazon.com wish list and all but two are gaming related. Three Halo books and one Gears of War book some of which haven’t come out yet. Also, I just found out that one of my favorite authors put out two more books in this series. Ian Douglas put out two books in his Inheritance Trilogy before I even knew that they were out there. If you don’t follow Sci-Fi books, then this part wouldn’t pertain to you, but I do love them. I’ve read the Star Wars books (of course) but they are very predictable in the usual direction that they take. But the Ian Douglas books of the past are a rare exception to sci-fi. He’s penned three trilogies (The Heritage Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy and now the Inheritance Trilogy). For the first book of all nine, “Semper Mars”, I can’t say anything bad about them...at all. He used realistic warfare tactics in space in the year 2038...or was it 2040? Anyway, there were no super weapons, there were no flying cars and there was no magic vehicle that took soldiers to space. It was all tech that we used today. “Lunar Marine”, the next book in that series, started off two years later and didn’t vary too far off his previous book, but for some reason wasn’t as good. “Europa Strike”, the last book in the Heritage Trilogy, was the first book that disappointed me.

When “Star Corp”, the first books in The Legacy Trilogy came along, it was around a hundred years later and it again blew me away, in a good way, with the tech that was used. He really opened my eyes to tech that could be applied in the future (even though Michael Crichton had been writing for years, his applications of the technology never went as far as “Star Corps”). “Battle Space” was another disappointment, but it did follow “Star Corps” which was a Triple A title in my opinion. “Star Marines” the last title in the trilogy, and it occurred 100 years after “Star Corps”, was rather good, but not nearly as good as “Star Corps”.

With the Inheritance Trilogy coming, I can’t wait to see where he’s taken the series.