Today's author is David Weber. His major work is the Honor Harrington / Manticore series. It's loosely based upon the Horatio Hornblower series, but set in not only the far future, but based more on technology that maps more to post US Civil War than UK Napoleonic War.
David Weber has made the merchant marine an important side issue in his books, although the main focus still remains on the Manticoran Navy. David Weber has a good grasp of the strategic and economic importance of a space going merchant marine, but his knowledge of how the real world merchant marine works and is set up, or at least how he writes about it, seems a bit odd from the viewpoint of somebody who has been working in the industry since 1979.
Amazon page for David Weber
http://www.amazon.com/David-Weber/e/B000APBAFE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1440071389&sr=1-1
Amazon page for his Honor Harrington series:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_lbr_books_series_b_4?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ADavid+Weber%2Cp_lbr_one_browse-bin%3ADavid+Weber%2Cp_lbr_books_series_browse-bin%3AHonor+Harrington&bbn=283155&ie=UTF8&qid=1440071366&rnid=3275128011
The Honor Harrington series on the Baen website:
http://www.baenebooks.com/c-29-honor-harrington-series-by-david-weber.aspx
I should have more critiques of his works over the next few weeks.
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