Reddit mentions of Through Struggle, the Stars (The Human Reach Book 1)

Yes, though I would also like the setting to be interesting in other ways. Such realism helps with immersion but the story needs to be engaging too. A good example of this is Through Struggle the Stars a sci fi book which explores the consequences of humanity developing wormhole technology and colonizing several nearby star systems. How would the countries react to the sudden ability to expand their territory again and what conflicts would arise from that? And aside from wormholes all the technology in the setting is real world stuff we could see ourselves getting in a few centuries, further adding to the sense of believablity.

Johnny Lumpkin seems to be quite happy writing books for a living. He makes LW for fun!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM

It depends on what you mean by 'similar feel', since star citizen is of course different things to different people.

There are some literal wing commander novelizations that are fine if you're looking for WW2 in space military adventure. Character development errm... But there's definitely parallels to the Star Citizen setting, having its roots in the same places.

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Struggle-Stars-Human-Reach-ebook/dp/B005FGNLDM

The Human Reach is a well done 'space war story' with a decent degree of hardness. It's not really space opera since the main character(s) function more as viewpoint characters as opposed to being the only ones moving the war along.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZP64F28/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is a largely non-violent space adventure that is character-focused with a deep backstory and well developed setting.

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like...what do you think you like in such a book?

a well developed setting with deep lore and thought given to the logical consequences of the society and technology?

appealing and interesting characters with developed personalities and consistent reactions?

Fast paced action and adventure?

To see the bad guys get their proper comeuppance regularly?

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These things are not always compatible or present in the same books.

> Through Struggle, The Stars

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I will give you reading advice - if you want to read proper hard SF with physics laws obeyed and war portrayed realistically then you must check out "Through Struggle, the Stars". link

Read it a week ago and it's a good read. I appreciate realism in space operas.

Science fiction, not fantasy but I would recommend The Human Reach. It does a really good job of speculating how space battles would actually go down, and it goes really into detail with what all of the combatants are doing.