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[Roster]

So what was your favorite battletech novel?

Mine was/is Decision at Thunder Rift

[CycKath]

Lost Destiny and *blushes and goes shy* Main Event

[Dymitry]

Falcon guard.

[Lily of Thrace]

I've only read a few of the Dark Age books, the original Battletech books are damn near impossible to get ahold of.
Plus, I'm not paying someone £50-170 for their torn and crusty old book. Damn, sometime nerds annoy me when they do stuff like that.
Anyway, of the ones I've read, I can't really decide a favourite between the first three, Ghost War, A Call To Arms, and The Ruins of Power. Then again, A Silence in the Heavens was also rather good...
How are you supposed to pick a favourite when all of the stuff you read is great?

[Johnathan McKenna]

The Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy. It is what first introduced me to battletech and has remained my favorite. It's also nice that it's three books bound together.

[Ramius Hazen]

I'd have to say Way of the Clans. The first book in the Jade Phoenix trilogy. Found myself using that trilogy as the benchmark against which I weighed all other titles.

[lord pillowpants]

jade phoenix series and the blood of kerensky series were two of my favorites.

tried reading some of the dark age series...still working on them...but too many good zombie novels out there...


hey...zombies v mechs...

[Ettibber]

Roster, on 25 July 2012 - 05:05 PM, said:

So what was your favorite battletech novel?

Mine was/is Decision at Thunder Rift

the one where the mary sue davions get their tails whipped.

[Aidan Mcpryde]

I am not sure I read one I did not like - So many awesome characters - although it was the Jade Phoenix trilogy that hooked me on Battletech. But Kai-Allard Liao and Victor Steiner-Davion will always be two of my most beloved characters.

[Kaishaku]

Gotta love Kai. Lost Destiny was my favourite.

[Anarcon]

I liked "Double Blind" and "D.R.T."

[OrmusBaxter]

I think I'd pick D.R.T (or "Black Thorn Blues", which was the title here in Germany), simply because it was the first BT novel i read. It's a nostalgia-thing

[Daylar]

Any of Mike Stackpole's books. I think he painted the best characters, overall.

[Stormwolf]

Jade Phoenix Trilogy, because it's mainly written from the Clan POV.

Blood of Kerensky Trilogy is a close second though.

[Marius Malthus]

way of the clans, the one with the ghost bear elemental (can't recall the name) and archer christifiori unit based novels

[SillyFrenchy]

The Warrior trilogy

[Douglas Reichel]

***, why no love for Close Quarters by Victor Milan?

Sure...Cassie wasn't a 'mech pilot, but she took out a Wolverine with a broomstick and a semi-auto rifle. What could possibly be more badass than that?

[Fiach]

Douglas Reichel, on 26 July 2012 - 05:38 AM, said:

***, why no love for Close Quarters by Victor Milan?

Sure...Cassie wasn't a 'mech pilot, but she took out a Wolverine with a broomstick and a semi-auto rifle. What could possibly be more badass than that?

Close Quarters was one of my favourate BT novels. Some of the best written characters in any BT book. They actually felt like a merc unit not some overpowered "Mary Sue" we can do anything better then anyone, shlock.

[NelsonGeist]

Star Lord is my second favorite.

First place for me was Natural Selection.

A lot happens in the book, if I remember right. But what sticks out most is the revelation about clan Wolverine.

That, and well I thought Nelson was one of the best single appearance characters in the books I read.

[Thoman Coston]

Falcon Rising.

Have always liked the character Marthe Pryde, Aidan Pryde's sibkin. Marthe, now Khan Marthe Pryde was portrayed in this book, along with Aidan's offspring Diana Pryde.