Coming of age science fiction.

[Alex]

Hey all. I'm looking for books like Pierce Browns Red rising series or the redemption trilogy by Michael R Hicks. I'm more of a fantasy reader but I've recently begun to appreciate sci fi books. The sci fi books I like feature a coming of age story with a protagonist going to some form of battle academy/school. I've read the enders game series already.

Do you any any good recommendations for me?

/Alex

 

[MMerle]

Hey all. I'm looking for books like Pierce Browns Red rising series or the redemption trilogy by Michael R Hicks. I'm more of a fantasy reader but I've recently begun to appreciate sci fi books. The sci fi books I like feature a coming of age story with a protagonist going to some form of battle academy/school. I've read the enders game series already.

Do you any any good recommendations for me?

/Alex

Perhaps The Forever War, Joe Haldeman and/or Starship Troopers by Heinlein. In both the protagonist is older than in Enders, but there are a lot of similarities (Forever War is vaguely a Vietnam era riposte to Starship Troopers).

Also, I haven't read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, but I'm pretty sure there are some in there that you would probably enjoy.

 

[Jim diGriz]

I'm not familiar with the books you've already read, aside from Ender's Game, but I feel Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage may be a good fit with what you're looking for. Although it features not so much a battle school as such, more of a school of hard knocks in which the protagonist has to survive in the wild for a month. And in a similar vein to that is Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky

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[Matthew Hughes]

Jack Vance did some very fine coming-of-age sf novels. If you want battles, his Durdane trilogy (The Anome, The Brave Free Men, The Asutra) has plenty, but there's no West Point/Sandhurst component. Vance's young male protagonists tend to fight their way to maturity more or less on their own. For an example of that, you could try Night Lamp.

 

[Jussslic]

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is an extraordinary coming of age story imho. Though the focus is really on knowledge and education, not war.

And hey, I guess you could throw Dune in there right?

 

[psikeyhackr]

Now that I think about it Ready Player One probably qualifies.

It starts with the protagonist at 18 but it does flashbacks to 13.

And it is about a relatively realistic near future Earth not like Panshin's Rite of Passage on a space ship.

psik

 

[Contrarius]

Also, I haven't read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, but I'm pretty sure there are some in there that you would probably enjoy.

Yeah, definitely what MMerle said. Try The Warrior's Apprentice (novel), The Mountains of Mourning (novella), and The Vor Game (novel).

 

[farseer2]

Excellent suggestions so far. You might enjoy Hunger Games, if you haven't read it yet. Also: Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix. Have Space Suit Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein...

 

[Windshadow]

Citizen of the Galaxy and Space Cadet by Heinlein most of his young adult books in fact are the classics of the genre

 

[psikeyhackr]

Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein

Definitely!

psik

 

[Ghidorah]

Arthur C. Clarke's Islands In The sky might qualify.