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#1 McBond

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Posted 16 October 2013 - 04:35 PM

I am finishing up wolves on the border and I enjoyed it enough to read some more battletech books. Can anyone recommend a good battletech book that follows or parallels this one chronologically? Near the end of the book it is 3026. Is there much significant before this?

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Posted 16 October 2013 - 09:53 PM

There is a lot of chronological overlap in the BattleTech novels. Bearing that in mind, the Saga of the Gray Death Legion (Decision at Thunder Rift, Mercenary's Star and The Price of Glory) and Stackpole's "Warrior" trilogy (Warrior: En Guarde, Warrior: Riposte and Warrior: Coupe) fall before Wolves on the Border in most of the lists I've seen, even though they may ease past that book on the timeline towards the end.

Heir to the Dragon follows directly after Wolves on the Border, though again, there's some overlap. Both books are written by the same author-- if you enjoyed Wolves on the Border, I would highly suggest finding a copy of Heir to the Dragon.

This is the list I tend to order the novels by. . .

http://www.stargazer..._novel_list.htm

#3 Sadistic Savior

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 11:59 AM

View PostMcBond, on 16 October 2013 - 04:35 PM, said:

I am finishing up wolves on the border and I enjoyed it enough to read some more battletech books. Can anyone recommend a good battletech book that follows or parallels this one chronologically? Near the end of the book it is 3026. Is there much significant before this?

I would start with Blood of Kerensky trilogy (Lethal heritage).


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That is the first actual appearance of the Clans in the Battletech universe (at least officially). Most of the pre-clan books center around IS politics and stuff, and are not all that relevant later in the series...love it or hate it, the Clans are a central part of Battletech lore now. Wolf's Dragoons plays a key role in that trilogy.

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 05:43 PM

I feel the following books will give you a good feel of the BattleTech Universe.

I would start with the Warrior Trilogy by Michael A. Stackpole, is about the events before and during the Fourth Succession War( 3028 to 3030). The main acts are the wedding of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, the experiences of Justin Xiang on Solaris VII and as spy on Sian, the vendetta between Morgan Kell and Yorinaga Kurita, the machinations of Michael Hasek-Davion and of subversive elements inside the Steiner nobility, ComStar's secret manipulations and of course the most important battles of the war.

Heir to the Dragon, by Robert N. Charrette, follows Theodore Kurita for twenty-two years as he learns to survive and thrive in the subtle and deadly courts of the Draconis Combine. The novel is also the only narrative of the War of 3039.


The Saga of the Gray Death Legion is a series of books about the famed Gray Death Legion mercenary unit. Most of the novels are by William H. Keith, Jr., with additional writing by Andrew Keith and Thomas S. Gressman. (This is the Mercenary unit that found the Helm Memory core that brought back Star League Tech right as the Clans hit.)

The Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy, by Robert Thurston, is the story of the fall and redemption of Aidan Pryde, hero of Clan Jade Falcon.

Blood of Kerensky is a trilogy by Michael A. Stackpole about the Clan Invasion (3049 - 3052)
There are many other fine novels you can read. Here is a complete list of BattleTech Novels.


v This is a list that I made over a year ago and I post when someone asks for a recommendation.

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 05:48 PM

if you read stackpole remember that he is a massive davion fanboi and writes like one.

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 07:02 PM

I didn't like the kuritans from chapter 1 on, and I would have been rooting for the other side if it weren't that it was mostly about the dragoons. I ordered the first stackpole book about the clan invasion.

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 08:06 PM

Heir to the Dragon is the story of Takashi Kurita's son Theodore and his struggle to turn the Combine away from the "Old ways" that cause so much of the grief found in Wolves on the Border. If memory serves, there is some payback for the actions against the Dragoons in that book.





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