Compare and Contrast

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This is the cover for "Cordelia's Honor", the first book in the award-winning, best selling Vorkosagian Saga.

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This is the cover of "A Hymn Before Battle", the first book in John Ringo's Posleen war series. The bulk of the story a tightly-plotted, exhaustively researched military drama about humanity being hired to fight the Horde of Alien Locusts known as the Posleen by alien species who can offer them all sorts of wonderful new technology, and humanity's reactions to the information and gearing up to fight.



The large-breasted woman is a legendary Special Forces vet who spends months in alien jungles gathering recon on the Posleen which turns out to be useless, yet seems to have forgotten any significant sort of camouflage above the waist, or even to cut her long, luxurious hair short. To be fair, her comrade in arms seems to have decided bright green is an ideal concealment color, to go with the conspicuously laser sighted guns they did not use in the book. It's a B-plot, at best.

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"Gust Front": The Posleen show up when humanity is still putting on its makeup, so to speak. Earth scrambles to mount an effective defense.



This looks like some kind of fanart a kid on deviantART whipped up.

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Let's jump a few years, to "Cally's War", about a young woman who becomes an stealth agent for the resistance against the horde of alien Loan Sharks who are trying to screw Earth over. She was trained by her dad and grandad, is officially dead, and is probably the second deadliest woman in existence.

Naturally, her favored choice of armour is low-cut space-leather and an space-M4 with a muffler on the end.

For some reason, the Posleen War books don't sell as well as the Saga.