I just finished reading Beowulf's Children by Larry niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. I thought it was an excellent book. It's the second book in a series about people from Earth who colonize a world called Avalon. They run into some hostile species, which generates quite a bit of action. The book moves quickly, and it is not very thought-provoking. I recommend it if you are looking for the reading equivalent of an action movie.



If the above link works, you can buy it from Amazon and I should get paid a small sum. I've never used one of these before, so I don't know if it's going to work.