[LMB] OT: Another rec request...

[Anita]

On Dec 17, 2007 5:23 PM, Raye Johnsen <raye_j at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Here are the sticking points:
> 1. Dad prefers male solo protagonists.  I wouldn't say
> he *minds* female protagonists, but he definitely
> likes male leads.  The solo bit is negotiable only to
> a very small party; Dad's favourite trope is 'one man
> against the world'.


The Nightside books by Simon  R  Greene , the first of which is _Something
from the Nightside_. The male protagonist is very much one man against the
world.

>
> 2. It needs a military and/or scientific focus.  When
> I gave him '1633', '1634: The Galileo Affair' and the
> 'Grantville Gazette II', he found the political
> sections of '1633' heavy going, lost interest almost
> immediately in '1634' [which is almost all politics],
> and I had to point out the stories about the
> mercenaries and the telegraph, as well as the
> nonfiction articles, in the Gazette.
>
>
The above recomendation while it doesn't have a military focus as such, it
has an action focus and the plot is mostly non-political. The worldframe is
urban fantasy written in a very noir style with the male protagonist being
something of a hardboiled detective with magic.

Anita