Books about fighters?

[Aster]

Hi to all. I am very interested to know whether exist any Battletech literature focused not on mechs but on aerospace pilots and battles?

[glitterboy2098]

sadly not that i know of. we've had one book focused on elementals, and a trilogy focused more on infantry scouts, but not really fighter pilots. the closest we got was a minor sub-plot in the Operation Serpent books where a fighter pilot was the viewpoint character a few times.

at least regarding novels. there might be some in the battlecorps archives though.

[AlphaMirage]

There was one in Battle corps 2, I believe.

[Kitsune413]

Blood of Kerensky Series by Stackpole has some fighter pilots doing their thing in it. Only a few chapters though.

[Frabby]

BattleCorps had a few aerospace fighter centric stories. Off the top of my head, the list includes Pitcairn Star and Half of a Warrior.
WarShip centric BC stories include The Last Full Measure, The Theseus Knot and Stars in the Time of Dreaming, the latter being set aboard a dying WarShip.
Generally space/zero-g centric BC stories include Echoes in the Void and McKenna Station. Pirates of Penance and Sore Loser are BattleMech stories in space, set on a space station and a JumpShip, respectively.

25 Years of Art and Fiction included a good aerospace fighter story too but the name eludes me.

And for laughs I'll also mention And Then There Was The Time... from Shrapnel.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

Yep the above mentioned story from Shrapnel is must read.

[Aster]

Ah, thanks. Where those mentioned stories can be found?

[Hellraiser]

I've always found the beginning of Sword & Dagger to be a nice view of a pilots perspective of combat.

Its only a chapter or 2 at most in the entire book, just a couple scenes as viewed from one of the Notable Thrush pilots from TRO3025, IIRC.

[Frabby]

Ah, thanks. Where those mentioned stories can be found?

For the time being, BattleCorps stories aren't available online unfortunately. Some of those I mentioned are available in print in the various BC print anthologies, but these too are currently OOP I think.