The Adventures of a Girl and Her Dragon

Righty, I just finished reading Terms of Enlistment, and loving it against my expectations, and I am eagerly awaiting the sequel. Meanwhile, I am being the last person in the universe to read Old Man's War, and I just bought The Price of the Stars: Book One of Mageworlds for reasons I can't remember.

Anyway, one of the things I really liked in Terms of Enlistment (and I'm finding Old Man's War similar) is that the SF aspect doesn't have lengthy, loving descriptions of what makes things work, but rather "Then they gave us our armor/weapon/new body and it did these things, and I don't know how it works but FUCK it was cool. And then we blew shit up."

Basically, can anyone point me to readable MilSF available in ebook format that is not going to make we wade through half a tech manual to get to the good bits?

And that goal it to finish at least the FIRST story in my Beast Wars season two AU before the new DVD set is released on June 7.

("Dragovian," you may ask, "why do you keep linking to the DVD set?" I will tell you true: I want it to sell many copies and ensure the release of seasons two and three, because my season two DVDs are in dire need of replacement. Find a new fandom! Buy them for friends! Buy them for random strangers! Just buy them.)

In pursuit of this goal, if you know Beast Wars, please feel free to suggest character themed music. (Hell, even if you don't know Beast Wars, knock yourself out.) I have an iTunes gift card, and I am not afraid to use it.

In other news, even though this hasn't been a particularly walking/standing heavy week, I'm in so much pain I'm considering chopping my legs off at the knees. Fucking ankles.

...a longish podfic, SGA, gen preferred, but OT4 or anything not McShep okay, where would you point me?