Thanks for the tips. I haven't read any of those, so now I have a good list to investigate. I recognized a few of those by name, but hadn't read them yet.

I had never heard of the "Military Hard Sci-Fi" genre before, but found that Basilisk title as a free Kindle book on Amazon, so I downloaded it. I haven't used my kindle for a while. I got disillusioned when the Kindle books cost MORE than a mass market paperback (and I usually buy used there days, which is even cheaper!) But for free, this eBook is a good buy, so I charged up the dead Kindle battery (and the thing still works!)