Looking for conventional ship and crew adventures that aren't tied to a franchise
Looking for conventional ship and crew adventures that aren't tied to a franchise
Mass Effect, Star Trek, similar stuff, without the giant franchise money machine. To consume like popcorn.
One of my favourites is Spiral Wars by Joel Sheppard.
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I'm feeling a little old school tonight so I'm going to boost Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh. May say #3 in a series, but all the books stand alone (they just share the same universe).
Is it part of Alliance-Union? I've read a couple of hers and always enjoyed them, but they never felt ship-and-crew. Rimrunners, you say (... heads to Wikipedia... )
Yeah, most Cherryh is not ship-and-crew in the sense you are talking about (though I loved the duct-tape feel of the ships in Heavy Time, iirc). Rimrunners might be the closest to what you are looking for though. And yep, it is Union-Alliance. For Cherryh, I guess maybe The Pride of Chanur would be ship-and-crew adventure? I can't quite remember as it was long, long, long ago I read that stuff -- who knows how well its aged. It's cover doesn't look super compelling to me these days. So I'm not recommending it. Ha ha.
Very, very late to the party but ship and crew ones she’s written in the A-U universe are Rimrunners, Tripoint and Merchanter’s Luck. Heavy Time almost falls into the category too but it takes place mostly on-station after a mining expedition gone wrong with a little bit of flashback to ship and crew.
Yes, it is. Cherry writes about different topics in that universe. Some books are ship-and-crew like Merchanter's Luck and Heavy Time, some like Cyteen or Downbelow Station aren't. The Chanur books are as well, but they are a series.
Also, Becky Chambers' Long Way To A Small Angry Planet.
Spiral Wars by Joel Sheppard.
I was just looking over some reader reviews of the first book in this series, and I noticed this: "Really nice story setting, oddly enough the background story reminded me of C.J. Cherryh's Chanur novels, which is a good thing." So maybe that is a recommendation after all?