Badass Main Character

[Nick Isaak]

I was hoping for some recommendations on stories with a badass for a main character. ElSol's Masters Ring and the Grendel series are great examples. Any interactions with the authorities are great. Thanks

[ElSol]

Hey -- I am referenced!!!

Suggestions.

Author: colt45
Story: Sea King

Author: hammyngbyrd7
Story: The Preacher Man

[Deadly Ernest]

depends on how you define the term Badass, doesn't it?

[Nick Isaak]

Dude I love your work. All of it.

Thanks for writing it.

[Sam]

Well, Dual Writer's Steve and Chuck qualify. Several of terrible thom's characters.
Roustwriter's Jeff qualifies, after the first chapter or so. A couple of Von in Your Mind's protagonists.
Deadly has several pretty tough characters.
The main character of rlfj's A Fresh Start is a pretty tough character, although I would think he is a bit too nuanced to be called a badass.
Robberhands has a couple of fantasies with the main character being a badass by nature.
John Wales also has a couple of tough characters.

[massivereader]

These are at the Baen Free Library: http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx

 

"Agent of Change" by Miller & Lee is about an Assassin and a Mercenary soldier that meet cute.

 

"A Desert Called Peace" by Tom Kratman about a retired professional soldier that starts a world war to revenge his family that was killed in a 9/11 type terrorist attack. 

 

"Monster Hunter International" by Larry Correia is about an accountant attacked by a werewolf that survives the attack by throwing him out the window of a skyscraper. Then he gets violent.

 

There's plenty of Military Sci-fi there as well. If you haven't already download one of the Baen CD's. You can find some of them here: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

 

They have a bunch of Drake's Hammer's Slammers series and most of Weber's Honor Harrington series and a ton more cool stuff.

 

I've always been partial to Gordon R. Dickson. Anything in his Dorsai series (actually the "Childe Cycle, officially) is good.

 

But two of his little know early novels are also great. Check out "Wolfling" and "The Hour of the Horde". You can find the paperbacks on Amazon.

 

Marrion Zimmer Bradley had a good tough-guy main character in "Hunters of the Red Moon".

 

John

 
On Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 2:54:15 AM UTC-4, Nick Isaak wrote:

[Sagacious]

I've been going through this guy's stories and every one has the kind of character you like.

 

http://www.sexstories.com/profile795826/Kenneth

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[rbhol...@charter.net]

Some of his stories are already available on SOL under the name of  "Ka Hmnd".  In fact I made the suggestion to him that he might want to also place the Kenneth Hammond stories at FS since they probably definitely fit the rules over there.  That is guessing he wants to keep them separate.

[Gauthier]

Island Mine by Refusenik http://storiesonline.net/s/73545/island-mine

The Private by Random Writings http://storiesonline.net/s/69860/the-private (in progress)

The Jade Force of Misera series of stories by Lazlo Zalezac http://storiesonline.net/series/1106/jade-force-of-misera

The Mannsborough Chronicles stories by Vulgart Argot http://storiesonline.net/series/19/the-chronicles-of-mannsborough

Female badass:
Kelly by Morgan http://storiesonline.net/s/35465/kelly
People of the Tiger by Wayne Edward Clarke http://storiesonline.net/s/65445/people-of-the-tiger

Deputy Porter, Sheriff Porter by carniegirl http://storiesonline.net/s/71650/deputy-porter http://storiesonline.net/s/73749/sheriff-porter