The aeronaut's windlass
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship. And as Grimm undertakes this task, he learns that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake...
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- More science fiction than just fiction:
* Spider series by W. Michael Gear
* Forbidden Borders series by W. Michael Gear
* The Change series (aka Emberverse) by S.M. Stirling (first 6)
* The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey
* Dream Park by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes
* In The Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn
* Me by Thomas T. Thomas
* A State of Disobedience by Tom Kratman
* Merchant Princess series by Charles Stross
* Daughter of the Empire series by Raymond E. Fiest and Janny Wurts
* Ecolitan series by L.E. Modesitt Jr
* Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson
* The Game is Life series by Terry Schott
* The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jum Butcher
- Here is a partial list of the books I read this year. These are all books that stood out to me which I enjoyed:
Fiction Books:
* Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey
* Homeworld, Out of the Black (books 3 & 4 in the Odyssey One series) by Evan Currie
* Furies of Calderon, Academ’s Fury (1 & 2 of the Codex Alera series) by Jim Butcher
* The Aeronaut’s Windlass also by Jim Butcher
* The Queen of Zamba by L. Sprague de Camp
* Giant of World's End by Lin Carter
* Batgirl of Burnside (graphic novel)
Non-fiction Books:
* Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle - the 1st of his books chronicling American soldiers in World War 2
* Vagrant Viking by Peter Freuchen - auto-biography of the Danish explorer/Nazi resistance fighter/writer/film-maker
* Voices of 1776 by Richard Wheeler - the Revolutionary war in the words of people who were there.
The non-fiction books surprised me because I really enjoyed all of them and I usually only read fiction or technical books. The Odyssey One books by Evan Currie also stood out to me because I found the first one for a low price on Kindle and I was blown away by the story.
