(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best war fiction books

Live near a comic book store? See if they host games (usually on saturdays) Go there and watch people play / admire their tiny soldiers!

Do you like videogames?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/15620/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/55150/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/298900/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_3

Play those, then realize you can make your own army to go kick an opponent's ass! (Or just make a spess muhreeen army just like those in the games and pretend you're those game characters!)

Not sure you want to drop the 100s of dollars (yep) on your massive army? Buy a box set https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Burning-of-Prospero-and-Paint-Guide-ENG so now you and a friend can get a small glimpse of what the bigger game might be like!

Are you a reader? (Like me?) http://www.blacklibrary.com/ there's 100s of books on all different types of armies and time periods you can hop in to! Learn just how amazing the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, CIAPHAS CAIN TRULY IS! Or follow Gaunt's Ghosts, the people who make Delta Force look like cowards. (Oh shit you can even play them! ) or follow the tale of a Penal legion special forces, commanded by a crazy and daring Officer that gets sent constantly on 1 way missions with SCHAEFFER'S LAST CHANCERS!(You can play as them as well! ) . Or of course if you like Tau or Cogboys or Pretty princesses or FUCK YEAH TANKS! the book. And yeah an ass-ton of spess murheeen books as well.

Really any of those books will be enough to get you hooked on the lore of the world.

And maybe you don't like the cut and dry grimdark? Well, you could always play the best army in the entire fucking universe which has it's own special rules and was completely fan created (aside from using Space Marine models)


I got hooked because in 7th grade all of my friends started playing, so I did. That's the best way. You and a friend start playing. Maybe a box set, maybe with a "Get started" kit you two duke it out with armies way below the point count for an actual game. Maybe you share a rulebook between the two of you. Maybe you go to the comic book store and make a friend there, ask people to teach you or ask them if it's ok if you sit in and ask questions while they play, I doubt they'll say no. This game is about having fun, whether fun be kicking someone's ass in a tournament, playing with your friends, just watching two people get mad at each other over an interpretation of a rule, showing off your painting skills (or gaining painting skills you didn't know you had) or just sitting on your break at work slowly chewing your way though a book on "1000 ways life could be worse for you" .

You know what you already have fun doing. Take that approach.

For some more ancap fiction threads and posts I have assembled

I listend to a talk David D. Freidman gave at Duke on Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction. (Blog post) (Audio)

I was curious about the pieces he mentioned, so I decided to make a list of them.

*****

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein

The Ungoverned - Vernor Vinge

True Names - Vernor Vinge

Oath of Fealty - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Syndic - C.M. Kornbluth

The Domination of Draka (series) - S.M. Stirling

Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Probability Broach – L. Neil Smith

The Great Explosion – Eric Frank Russell

The Cassini Division (Fall Revolution Series) - Ken MacLeod (I don’t believe the books by this author are mentioned but I believe this is the one concerning the “Einstein” in the capitalist enclave.)

Harald - David D. Friedman

Salamander - David D. Friedman

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Here are also some links to other threads on the subject that have been posted in this sub:

I need some help on compiling a reading list on Anarcho-Capitalist, Libertarian and techno-commercialist novels, plays, etc.

Any An-cap friendly novels out there?

A permanent catalog of fiction with AnCap themes (please feel free to contribute)

Any representations of a stateless society that is positive in fiction?

Agorist fiction?

Anarch Capitalist Fiction List?

I have provided Amazon links. Most of these pieces can be found online, but I will leave that to the reader.

Don't have to say happy birthday, but I will. :) Happy birthday! I hope you have many, many more, and each one is better than the previous.

[Here's an ebook] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FCRBBVS/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=WF8NZ0PKFW15&coliid=I37Z6YRPB5OYD) I've been thinking about reading for a while. I like a wide range of stuff too, and I'd put this one in the "literary" category. We're staying at my mom's house for Christmas and they have one of my favorite novels, East of Eden, on the shelf in the room I'm using. It's been a couple of years since I've read that one, so I as tempted to pick it up again. Just a random "got me thinking about reading" tidbit.

>I was a “private military contractor” for years. I worked mostly in Africa, where I dealt with warlords, raised small armies, worked with armed groups in the Sahara, transacted arms deals in Eastern Europe, and prevented a genocide vicinity Rwanda. Before this, I was a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.
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>After I left the mercenary world, I decided to talk about it. Mercenaries are rising around the world, doing things that would blow your mind. It’s worse (or better, depending on POV) than most think.
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>I use fiction to pull back the curtain on the mercenary world today. That way I don’t get sued to death. (Or worse.)
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>I’m now a professor of war and strategy in Washington DC, where I teach senior military officers and intel types from around the world how to fight and win. I have unorthodox views, but that’s what happens when a merc gets a PhD.
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>My novel DEEP BLACK: A TOM LOCKE NOVEL comes out tomorrow. It’s thinly veiled reality, and a fun read. Think Dan Silva, Brad Thor, Tom Clancy with more…authentic details. Please check it out: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Black-Tom-Locke-Novel/dp/0062403737/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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>More about me here http://www.seanmcfate.com. I’m even on twitter now @seanmcfate
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>I will answer all of your questions to the best that I can — if I can. If I can't, I will do my best to explain why.
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Alright lets do this.

Fantasy:

You like friendship and grimdark? You get the Slayer series:
http://www.amazon.com/Gotrek-Felix-First-Omnibus-Novels/dp/1844163741/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426257019&sr=1-1&keywords=gotrek+and+felix+omnibus

You like malice and conniving and plot twists? You get the Darkblade Series:
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Malus-Darkblade-Warhammer-Anthology/dp/1844165639/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426257058&sr=1-1&keywords=darkblade+omnibus

You like the Empire n shit? They did a whole series about every "part" of the army:
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Omnibus-Warhammer-Chris-Wraight/dp/1849705879/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=15PKR46KZZN2847VPRMN

The omnibus contains the arty, pikemen, and 2handed swords companies. There is also a Reiksguard book and some others.


40k:

You like comedy? You get Ciaphus Cain (currently 2 omnibus, books getting a bit stale now but the early ones are good):
http://www.amazon.com/Ciaphas-Cain-Hero-Imperium-Novels/dp/1844164667

You like philosophy (kinda)? You get the Night Lords series:
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Lords-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/184970676X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256834&sr=1-1&keywords=night+lords+omnibus

You like pure bloody action? You get any of the Gaunts Ghosts:
http://www.amazon.com/Gaunts-Ghosts-Founding-Dan-Abnett/dp/1844163695/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256866&sr=1-2&keywords=gaunts+ghost+omnibus

You like the movie The Dirty Dozen? You get The Last Chancers:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chancers-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/1844163008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256913&sr=1-1&keywords=last+chancers+omnibus

You want all the pre-lore in the game? You start collecting the Horus Heresy books (up to like 30 of em):
http://www.amazon.com/Horus-Heresy-Box-Volumes-1-12/dp/1849708290/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256963&sr=1-2&keywords=horus+heresy



I got plenty more. But these are good places to start. If you like one race in particular over others, let me know and I can recommend some race specific books for you.

I don't read much mystery, but one of the first novels I ever read was The Alienist by Caleb Carr. I'm not well versed in the mystery genre, unfortunately, aside from this book and some stories by Edgar Allan Poe, but I thought it was fantastic. It was extremely hard to put down. I definitely recommend it, and I think for a mystery writer such as yourself, it would be a great place to start. If the wikipedia page doesn't give you enough information to get you interested, the Amazon page has lots of reviews to help you out.

If he enjoys comedy books then you should definitely go with Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore.

Else, Ender's Game and The Dresden Files were already mentioned. If he likes zombies go with Day by Day Armageddon. Try out Storm of Iron if he likes Warhammer 40k or in general awesome fantasy warfare in the distance and wicked future.

My ultimate vote goes to The Dresden Files. Harry Dresden is an awesome character.

I would suggest Axis of Time trilogy. Its a time travel story where a multi-national America led armada in 2021 has time traveled into 1942.

Which two cultures clash? 2020's highly liberalized America and 1940s highly conservative society.

> Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor—led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance—have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they’ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada’s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.

The 1940s people are totally shocked by an African American Lesbian officer. Some local people revolt against them, FDR wants to utilize them to win the war. Einstein is horrified to find out about Holocaust being committed in Europe. J Edgar Hoover is super pissed to hear about people from the future spreading rumors about him being gay. Well I don't wanna give too many spoilers, but its a pretty amazing culture clash story.

http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Trilogy/dp/0345457137

Second Red Storm Rising. Probably the best cold war gone hot book out there. As a close second, Chieftains Link by Bob Forest-Webb is also really good. The American version is Team Yankee by Harold Coyle Link. Both about armoured divisions in Germany in a major land war.

Vortex by Larry Bond is really good too. It's set in South Africa (fucking prawns...) during an ultra nationalist takeover. Really interesting setting and superbly written.

Also of interest in the same genre, Cauldron, also by Larry Bond is set in the 90's and see's France and Germany form an ultra nationalist confederation and properly kick off. They basically annex eastern europe as a slave labour force and set their sites on European domination. Another great read.

How about the book that hooked me on Jack McDevitt: CHINDI

http://www.amazon.com/Chindi-Jack-McDevitt/dp/0441011020

He's one of the most realistic science-fiction writers out there. And he's a fantastic storyteller, too. Lots of science, lots of relativity challenges, and he loves writing about the search for extraterrestrial life in the future. He's written a bunch of books with this main character, Priscilla Hutchens, and if you like Chindi, you should read more of those series books. This is probably my favorite sci-fi book, tho. Second place would be the Ender Saga.

I'm a guy and I'm cheap. Keep this in mind.

Don't buy the crap on that page. Just don't. I realize it IS cheap, but in the long term, it will cost you in terms of having to replace some of it when it does break (all except the life straw).


Go ahead and spend some time reading, comparing and asking more questions.

Go to Pinterest and search Bugoutbag ( BOB ), Gethomebag GHB , SCAREbag, etc. You'll spend hours and hours. Instagram has a lot also. I've recently quit FB, so no help from me there.

Make a list of the things you see the most.. These will be the BASIC items you need:

• Bag does not have to look military. I have this and use it daily for carrying to work)
  
• Shelter
  
• Water
  
• Knife - Very Good & cheap one Amz
  
• Fire (lighter & something like a nano striker)
  
• Maps - places you might be when something happens
  
• First Aid Kit - make one, don't buy one
  
• Cordage - 550 paracord or the smaller 275
  
• Multitool - Leatherman, 'nuff said
  
• Can you legally carry a gun? Pack it and some ammo.
  
  
  Now, think about whether you are really going to bug out ? Or do you need this to Get Home ?
  
  If you are bugging out, or getting home, figure out how far it's going to be. Can you walk that far?? How long do you think it will take?? Add a day or more. What is the climate? Are you down South like me where we had 2 days of 33 temps this year? The bag will change depending on time of year.
  
  Read this series while it has some info, it lets you see what someone might* face while doing what you are planning for (no relation to Author, I just enjoyed the series).
  
  

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson is a story about a WWII US Navy ship that gets pulled into an alternate Earth. The series now runs to eight or so books. Anderson is a squid, and this is military SF, so it's action-driven, with simple characters, but the plots are so interesting, I keep picking up each new book when it comes out. He has the annoying compulsion of feeling the need up update readers of every book on all the events that have occurred before in the entire series (for the benefit of all 4 of the readers that will start at book #6), so the more you read, the more skimming will be required. However, his writing style continues to improve over time, which actually makes up for it.

Vernor Vinge: The Peace War + Marooned in Realtime. Plot involves a technology of unbreakable stasis bubbles inside of which time freezes. Bubbles can be programmed for any length of time. The second book is more to your topic, but you need to read #1 first.

The Many-Colored Land by Julian May.

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick.

Fifteen hours. Best IG novel by far.

If you want exaggerated stories of heroes overcoming impossible odds, sure, go ahead and buy stuff like Gaunt's Ghosts. You'll be basically reading about Space Marines.

If you want a brutal, ultra realistic novel about how shitty life is in a warzone as a grunt in the Imperial Guard, get Fifteen Hours. Best Black Library book by far.

http://www.amazon.com/Fifteen-Hours-Warhammer-40-000/dp/1844162311

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson. He's a sailor, and his naval tech is extremely well researched. The characters are a bit flat, but he has great plots, and I keep buying the latest books. His writing improves and the plot really evolves as the series progresses.

A couple of my science fiction books are available for free on Kindle for the rest of the week.

Lumiuxx - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XPZLFL1

Shanghai Shuffle - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074HPYVRQ

Read, enjoy, review, etc. Happy Thanksgiving.

Eisenhorn was my first 40K book before I was really aware of 40K... I bought it because it was big, cheap and I was a starving college student... It was the one that got me into Warhammer because I started wondering why everything was so "Grimdark" (before I knew what grimdark was).

This was back in '04 or so, so I was lucky enough to catch the fluff turning into a real thing with fully developed characters AND I got the start of the Heresy a couple years later.

Eisenhorn is great. I love the Sandy Mitchell stuff about Caiphas Cain, but I really think those should only be read once you've absorbed enough of the grimdark... Without a few books of the unrelenting horror of the 41st millenium, Cain's whole "Flashman in Space" is really jarring.

Here's my 50k foot list:

Get some Lord of the Night and then Night Lords. These two really highlight the difference in styles between older fluff and the newer, more professional stuff.

Gray Knights are fun and cheap if you go for older editions.

Get some Motherfudgin' Space Wolves and then get some more.

Get some Word Bearers. Someone can correct me, but I think Dark Disciple features the guardsman or regular joe who's a resident of a planet they use for a ritual and it's told from his perspective... Hella grimdark.

Stay away from the Space Marine Battles books for a bit. They're pretty formulaic "Mary Sue Beats Evil". They aren't bad, but there's a lot of depth that you lose out on as Black Library starts to consolidate stories and put out mech-specific stuff.

If you've got a college near you, the used book section will probably be a treasure trove of cheap stuff that's been hocked to buy beer...

Edit - Oh yeah, Fudge CS Goto in his elf-hole. Skip all those books.

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
   
2. 8/10
   
3. Historical Fiction, Religion, War, Drama, Romance
   
4. It is one of the few books that make me tear up a bit. When I finished reading that book, I told my friends to read it and they enjoyed it too.
   
5. Amazon, or Goodreads, or Wiki

Some of my favorites are The Housekeepr and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I'm also a big fan of Walter Moers(German), but his books aren't everyone's thing. Goodreads might also be a good place to continue your search. I just did this search and found many books that would meet your requirements.

You might want to read This

Book as well though you had better be ready for a dark read, it is honestly the most depressing war fiction book I have read but it was a really great read.

I mentioned this another thread, but this should fulfill your desires nicely.

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The list was too long to fit into a self-post, here is the continuation.

Prolific Authors: (5+ Books)

• Going Home by A. American
  
• Surviving Home by A. American
  
• Escaping Home by A. American
  
• Forsaking Home by A. American
  
• Resurrecting Home by A. American
  
• Apocalypse Law by John Grit
  
• Apocalypse Law 2 by John Grit
  
• Apocalypse Law 3 by John Grit
  
• Apocalypse Law 4 by John Grit
  
• Apocalypse Law 5 by John Grit
  
• Holding Their Own I: A Story of Survival by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own II: The Independents by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own IV: The Ascent by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own VI: Bishop's Song by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own VII: Phoenix Star by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own VIII: The Directives by Joe Nobody
  
• Holding Their Own IX: The Salt War by Joe Nobody
  
• Apocalypse Drift by Joe Nobody
  
• Secession: The Storm by Joe Nobody and P.A. Troit
  
• Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• 299 Days 1: The Preparation by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 2: The Collapse by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 3: The Community by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 4: The Stronghold by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 5: The Visitors by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 6: The 17th Irregulars by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 7: The Change of Seasons by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 8: The War by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 9: The Restoration by Glen Tate
  
• 299 Days 10: The 43 Colonels by Glen Tate
  
  Science Fiction with apocalyptic elements:
  
  
• Directive 51 by John Barnes
  
• Daybreak Zero by John Barnes
  
• The Last President by John Barnes
  
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  
• Wool by Hugh Howey
  
• Shift by Hugh Howey
  
• Dust by Hugh Howey
  
• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  
• Aftermath by Charles Sheffield
  

Historical Navel Fiction

Some Examples Below

 
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• Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester (Mr. Midshipman Hornblower,Hornblower and the Widow McCool,Lieutenant Hornblower,Hornblower and the Hotspur,Hornblower and the Atropos,The Happy Return,Ship of the Line,Hornblower During the Crisis,The Last Encounter,Flying Colours,Hornblower and His Majesty,Hornblower's Charitable Offering,Commodore Hornblower,Lord Hornblower,Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies)
  
  
• Bolitho by Alexander Kent (Midshipman,Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger,Band of Brothers,Stand Into Danger,In Gallant Company,Sloop of War (Richard Bolitho Series),To Glory We Steer,Command a King's Ship,Passage to Mutiny,With All Despatch,Form Line of Battle!,Enemy in Sight!,The Flag Captain,Signal Close Action,The Inshore Squadron,A Tradition of Victory,Success to the Brave,Colours Aloft!,Honour This Day,The Only Victor,Beyond The Reef,The Darkening Sea,For My Country's Freedom,Cross of St. George,Sword Of Honour,Second to None,Relentless Pursuit,Man Of War,Heart of Oak,In The King's Name)
  
  
• Alan Lewrie Naval by Dewey Lambdin (The King's Coat,The French Admiral,The King's Commission,The Kings Privateer,The Gun Ketch,H. M. S. Cockerel,The King's Comander,Jester's Fortune,The King's Captain,Sea of Grey,Havoc's Sword,The Captain's Vengeance,A King's Trade,Troubled Waters,The Baltic Gambit,King, Ship, and Sword,The Invasion Year,Reefs and Shoals,Hostile Shores,The King's Marauder)
  
  
• Aubrey–Maturin by O'Brian (The Thirteen-Gun Salute,The Nutmeg of Consolation,The Truelove,Master and Commander,Post Captain,H.M.S. Surprise,Master and Commander,Desolation Island,The Fortune of War,The Surgeon's Mate,The Ionian Mission,Treason's Harbour,The Far Side of the World,The Reverse of the Medal,The Letter of Marque,The Wine-Dark Sea,The Commodore,The Yellow Admiral,The Hundred Days,Blue at the Mizzen)
  
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This is a pretty great Alternate History book about what might have happened if the Nazis had lasted until the 1950s.

It's great if you like terrifying overkill (the Allies end up preparing for naval landings with multi-day barrages of automatic 8" naval artillery from battle lines of as many as fifty cruisers, followed by aerial bombardment with tens of thousands of gallons of napalm and fuel-air bombs), awesome team-ups (Viet Minh fighting Nazis alongside the USMC in fascist France), and some of the greatest set piece battles that never were (four armies fight on the land, air and underground over a two square mile bunker fortress).

Forever Peace - Haldeman

Book of The New Sun/Book of the Long Sun - Wolfe (this is a very rewarding story, but it requires commitment)

Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro

The Sparrow - Russell

Please be aware that these are all fairly dark. Maybe I'm soft, but The Sparrow was one of the roughest books I've read, from a psychological perspective.

This alt history novel series is an excellent read. Although in this series, both the Allies and the Axis powers received tactics and technologies from the future in story.

Play.com used book section or amazon ( where i got all the Nightlords books from )

http://www.amazon.com/Word-Bearers-Omnibus-Warhammer-Novels/dp/1849701059

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Lords-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/184970676X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412257566&sr=1-1&keywords=nightlords+omnibus

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Iron-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/184416571X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412257607&sr=1-1&keywords=storm+of+iron


or your local nerd-hobby store will most likely have most of the books.

TLDR: Buy used and be happy and wealthy.

Anyone else read Deep Black by Sean McFate? It's pretty surreal to see familiar names and places from SCW in print. Things like Erbil, Aleppo, Qamishlo, Sinjar, Soleimani, the Shia Crescent, etc.

In Gallant Company, by Alexander Kent. From Amazon.com: In another thrilling Richard Bolitho adventure, the navy prepares for action at sea against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, as the American Revolution rages on the mainland.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. He also wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Pushing Ice meets the most of your requirements.

Forever Peace was a good read.

And Steal Across the Sky was worth reading.

I would recommend the grey knight omnibus. Really solid read. http://www.amazon.com/Grey-Knights-The-Omnibus-Warhammer/dp/1844166961

I haven't read either, Ill post some I have when I get off work and we can see if we can work out a trade.

Some off the top of my head

Surviving Home
Patriots
Survivors
Tomorrow War
I have some others I think, or maybe just the e-books.

The Alienist

Although I was pretty young when I read it. I don't know if it would have the same effect on me today.

By "Imperial Guard Book" do you mean the omnibus? If not -
Fifteen Hours by Mitchel Scanlon - Read this book if you find yourself getting worn out on the ol' 40k literature flaw of "The protagonist of this book is an invulnerable powerhouse who can defeat anybody ever." Fifteen hours is a paperback kick in the pants about a lowly guardsman trying not to die on the front lines of a planet he's not even supposed to BE on. It can also be found in the Imperial Guard Omnibus.

I second the votes for Eisenhorn, it'll make your Ravenor experience even better (coming from somebody who read Ravenor then Eisenhorn, I wish I had done it the other way around).

This series by A. American is a survivalist series about living off the grid. My husband really liked it.

the book

No there's plenty of stories that fall into alternate history while not into fantasy, one of the greatest is

https://www.amazon.com/Festung-Europa-Anglo-American-Nazi-War-ebook/dp/B015URFGEC

I read this after reading The Kite Runner in an English class and really liked it.

The part where she's reading the letter got to me, cried like a little girl.

• Lights Out by David Crawford
  
• Going Home by A. American (and the whole Survivalist series that follows)
  
• Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
  
• The Postman by David Brin
  
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  
• Breakers by Edward W. Robertson (and the rest of the series; good deals on Kindle bundles)
  
  

The Helmand province is one of the stricter areas of Aghanistan in terms of modesty and gender roles. Kabul has been and still is one of the more progressive cities in the nation.

If you're interested, check out A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's a really beautiful book about the lives of several women living in Kabul during the Taliban takeover in the 1980s. It's fiction, but the author is an Afghan man with a lot of experience, both personal and impersonal, on the subject.

John Birmingham covers a scenario like this in these books: http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Trilogy/dp/0345457137

Reading. Obviously, if you get too high, you won't be able to read well. The secret is staying low dose, getting just high enough. Check out the Amazon "Look Inside" previews to see if any of these is right for you.

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Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.

Tuf Voyaging by George RR Martin.

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson.

Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer.

The Remaining by DJ Molles.

Chindi by Jack McDevvitt has that.

They discover that some alien race has put stealth probes around every inhabited planet.

Chindi is like the 3rd book in a several-book series. They all have different plots (they're just set in the same universe).

Hey. That's not entirely true.

I'll have you know the average life expectancy of an Imperial Guardsman in combat is a healthy Fifteen Hours

I still remember a tag-line in a White Dwarf was something like

> "2 months training, 1 week transport, average life expectancy: FIFTEEN HOURS"

It's 15 hours btw. And it refers to the average life expectancy of a Imperial Guardsman on the frontline against orks.

(the guard is one of the most interesting factions as it's composed of baseline humans in flak-jackets fighting hyper-violent fungus, planet-stripping hive monsters and literal demons.)

It won't at all.

I'd say the show ran through the book material before season 1 even ended.

If you're interested in some other alternate history / Scifi, I can recommend a series more in the style of Tom Clancy than Phillip K Dick. Axis of Time Trilogy. It's more action orientated and there is time travel involved, but I found it checks a lot of the same boxes MITHC does in keeping my attention.

https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Trilogy/dp/0345457137

Forever peace by Joe Haldeman

The Anglo-American / Nazi War, which was later cleaned up and published as Festung Europa.

http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Trilogy/dp/0345457137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376926573&sr=8-1&keywords=weapons+of+choice

Here ya go.

Still up until tomorrow!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blaise-Maximillian-Bitter-Matthew-Sylvester-ebook/dp/B013V2M87G/

That is a thing.

Haldeman was rather prescient with soldier boys in Forever Peace

Chieftains might be up your alley. Other than that?

Hrm... Sections of The [Color] Effect series and and Red Army.

https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Novel-Survivalist-American/dp/0147516951

maybe look into cruise ships, which are basically floating car-free cities.

Also the book 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven, which is about an arcology.

http://www.amazon.com/Oath-Fealty-Larry-Niven/dp/1416555161

First book in the Destroyermen series: Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson.

I love the setting and characters. Unfortunately the beginning of the first book drags a bit but I get a real kick out of alternate universes and stuck it out. I was not disappointed and recently finished the 8th in the series last month.

This one is backwards but a great book. Weapons of Choice Basically a 2021 battle group gets transported into the battle of midway in the middle of WWII. Changing the course of history.

There are tons of good Warhammer 40k books if that's your thing, and you really need to be more familiar with the setting than specific characters in order to get into them. To start there, I recommend the Last Chancers novels. There are three of them and they're all collected into one big book. It's about a group of Imperial Guardsmen who who convicted criminals and they're sent on suicide missions. You're introduced to them all right in the first book.

Ask for more recommendations over at r/Warhammer40k

Do you like alternate history time travel? Check out John Birmingham's Axis of Time series. :

A US-led task force off Indonesia in 2021 finds itself sent back to 1942, just prior to the Battle of Midway. The novels deal with a rapidly altered version of World War II, and to a lesser extent the social changes that result amongst the Allied powers.