Joshua Dalzelle Warship (black fleet trilogy)

Good solid novel series about starship operations. Basically sins of a solar empire in book form.

Relatively recent series still being written today I think even after 9 books. 

Sounds like you are talking about David Weber’s Safehold series which is very good. I have read about 8 of them iirc.

While I would also highly recommend "Off Armageddons Reef", I think it only fair to tell you that it was published in 2007 and the series is now up to 10 very long  (over 600 pages each) novels.  If you get hooked you'll be in for a long ride   

This happens a lot with series now days.

Tied to the fact the writers get paid by the word and many should have been a stand alone book, have not read the Safehold so do not know if this fits with them I am talking in general.

One of the worst at this is Harry Turtledove.

Most if not all his books are excellent, till he writes a sequel, everyone goes downhill from there.

Add the fact he has to add word after word to fill out the pages.

I quit reading him the 3,250th time that he told us that Odin Cursed sailor sun-burned if he was outside for more than 3 minutes.

Cannot really suggest recent books for you not knowing your tastes that well. 

A few old ones that are good are H.Beam Piper's "Fuzzy" and its follow-ups' and the Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

You've likely read the Weber/White Starfire books based on the old board game. If not they are good SF based on the Starfire Board game.

Would not mind beta/ moderating that one for a certain game company.

Yea, I avoid any Turtledove series at this point.  

So far in 2023, it's been a bust for a great book.  Last couple years were pretty good (for me). Some of my favorites have included:

• 2015: First 15 lives of Harry August, Mind's Eye, Seveneves
• 2016: Daemon, Dawn of the Singularity
• 2017: Brandon Sanders books, Children of Time, We are Legion, For we are many, All these worlds,
• 2018: Saxon Stories series
• 2020: Murderbot series, Children of Ruin,
• 2021: Three Body Problem series, Heaven's River, Project Hail Marry
• 2022: Upgrade
• 2023: ???

2022, 2023: books that others loved but I didn't: Children of Memory, Station Eleven, Hyperion, Wool

Then there's books I didn't like that are popular: Blindsense, Ilium, Gunslinger series, Cryptonomicon, The 5th season

An oldie but goodie: Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.  This got me hooked on Sci-Fi.  

Since i could not get Off Armaggedons Reef last year, i settled for another book from David Weber, random one there was being sold translated to local language, so i thought why not.

However, it turned out to be a mistake, as the book is part of the Honorverse series, as i later found out, however its one of the books from its spin-off sub-series, and not even the first one in there. Its called Storm from Shadow or something along the line, dont remeber the exact english name.

I tried my best to read it, but seems i miss lot of background not reading the previous books. And unfortunately, while i thought a book about interstellar politics and space combat would be right down my alley, it turns out its really not i guess. Maybe its the style of the author, but it seems to focus way too much on details of everything, minutae of said combat, extremely sophisticated dialogues, etc.. i dont know. Expanse i found way easier to read.

Anyway, just today my brother asked me what book i want for Christmas this year, so i checked the store and decided for Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. This time around, the first book in said series. Hopefully i am going to like it. 

I read the entire series and enjoyed it thoroughly! 

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