Looking for your next read? Check out these titles:

• Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein. The grandfather of powered armor military sci-fi. Mobile Infantry in exosuits dropping into alien warzones. 
• Armor — John Steakley. A soldier trapped in powered combat armor fighting endless alien waves. Raw, psychological, and deeply personal — one of the most underrated mil-SF novels ever written.
• The Forever War — Joe Haldeman. A soldier’s increasingly alienated relationship with the civilization he’s fighting for. 
• Old Man’s War — John Scalzi. Elderly recruits given enhanced bodies to fight interstellar wars. Fast-paced, accessible military sci-fi with a sardonic protagonist and sharp combat sequences.
• Altered Carbon — Richard K. Morgan. Cyberpunk noir meets military background. A former elite soldier navigating corporate-controlled society, neural technology, and conspiracy. 
• Neuromancer — William Gibson. The foundational cyberpunk novel. Corporate power, neural interfaces, street-level operators running dangerous jobs.
• Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson. Corporate franchises have replaced governments, a katana-wielding hacker/pizza deliveryman navigates the chaos.
• The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester. A vengeful loner with augmented abilities tears through a corrupt corporate-controlled solar system. Gully Foyle’s rage-fueled quest echoes Tiberius’s drive. One of my favorite stories of all time!
• Hammer’s Slammers — David Drake. Mercenary tank units doing dirty corporate and planetary contract work. Gritty, morally gray military operations.
• Marko Kloos’s Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines series). A grunt from the slums joins the military, fights in powered armor, and discovers the system he serves is deeply compromised. Working-class military sci-fi with strong tactical detail.
• Greg Bear (or Bear’s War Dogs — yes, same title) Bear’s War Dogs trilogy follows Marines on Mars in a brutal alien conflict with heavy military procedure and betrayal themes. 
• Cyberstorm — Matthew Mather. Near-future collapse of infrastructure and society, survival under corporate and governmental failure. 
• Blade Runner / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick. Android hunters, corporate power, questions of what makes someone human. 
• Eclipse — John Shirley. Early cyberpunk — corporate-military alliances, mercenaries, and resistance fighters in a near-future warzone. Gritty and politically charged.
• The Light Brigade — Kameron Hurley. Corporate-controlled military, soldiers converted to light for deployment, and a protagonist slowly uncovering the lies behind the war they’re fighting. Brutal and smart.
• Embedded — Dan Abnett. A journalist is neurally embedded into a soldier’s consciousness during a corporate resource war on a frontier planet. 
• Iron Gold — Pierce Brown (Red Rising series, Book 4). The later Red Rising books shift into morally complex post-revolution military operations with power armor, betrayal, and the cost of fighting for a broken system.
• Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee. Military sci-fi with a disgraced captain forced to work with a brilliant, dangerous tactician. Unconventional.
• Trading in Danger — Elizabeth Moon (Vatta’s War series). A military-trained protagonist thrust into mercantile and mercenary conflicts in a corporate-dominated spacefaring society. Strong tactical thinking and corporate conspiracy.
• Blackwing — Ed McDonald. Dark fantasy rather than sci-fi, but a war-scarred veteran operating in a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland on morally gray missions for powerful overlords.

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes