The Seafort Saga is a particular favourite of mine. Written over twenty years ago it follows the life of a young naval recruit in a rather plausible future society. It also features mankind’s first contact with aliens… but aliens as they probably actually are, rather than actors in rubber suits 

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In “Midshipman’s Hope” Nicholas Seafort is catapulted from junior officer to acting ship’s captain.

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In “Challenger’s Hope” Nicholas Seafort is left for dead

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In “Prisoner’s Hope” Nicholas Seafort is battles an alien menace whilst facing a civil uprising

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Nicholas Seafort is now commandant of the Naval Academy. The story features the final battle with the aliens, and has flashbacks to his youth

Stop reading the series here

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This book is written variously from half a dozen different perspectives. I’ve now read it half a dozen times and have now only just figured out what was going on.

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This book is set twenty years after the last, and whilst it isn’t a bad one, it lacks a certain something.

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In this last book of the series, the story finally gets good again.