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You know what I want to read about right now? Competent people being competent and competently handling whatever the author throws at them.
What& #39;s out there? I& #39;ve got a few to mention myself:
What& #39;s out there? I& #39;ve got a few to mention myself:
I just finished K. B. Wagers& #39; A Pale Light in the Black.
Has Elizabeth Moon written anything that *doesn& #39;t* fit this description?
Has Elizabeth Moon written anything that *doesn& #39;t* fit this description?
The first three of Lois McMaster Bujold& #39;s World of the Five Gods series ... I& #39;m not sure Penric entirely qualifies under my criteria, though. Ditto for a lot of the Vorkosigan Saga, there& #39;s a lot of just skating by in those.
Martha Wells& #39; Murderbot series does qualify, in my opinion.
The only John Ringo books I& #39;ve ever liked are his Troy Rising series, which are loaded with competence and explosions.
I haven& #39;t read anything like all of C. J. Cherryh& #39;s books, but there& #39;s definitely been a lot of competence in (most of?) the ones I& #39;ve read.
Somebody already mentioned Ann Leckie& #39;s Ancillary series - thank you! I need to get a hold of the 3rd one.
Genivieve Cogman& #39;s Invisible Library series is also a good one for this, I think.
Switching over to mysteries, Donna Leon& #39;s very long Commissario Brunetti series features a lot of quiet competence (including superior management of an incompetent superior 
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