/lit/ - Literature

I have been searching for good military-scifi for a while now, got sick and tired of Honor Harrington series as the Mary Sue-syndrome started getting worse and worse the more I read that I couldn't stand it anymore even for the sake of the combat parts of the books.

I tried reading "Unbreakable" which first appeared cozy with their exoskeleton infantry and relatively conventional weapon tech level. But then the author got braindamage and threw in a ghost of the protagonist to give shitty narrative and to generally ruin a good book.

The Expanse is top-notch scifi but it's pretty limited in space combat and more on Holten's shenanigans.

There was also this book series called "The Starfishers" but the story jumps both in location, characters and time. It's a frustrating clusterfuck of a read that pisses me off because the author clearly doesn't know what the absolutely fuck he should focus on.

I've read all Ciaphas Cain books, really liked the black humour and tongue-in-cheek writing of the character. I could appreciate more along that alley.