I haven't read it yet myself, but John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is on my reading list with this note from a rationalist-fiction-loving friend of mine: "

I haven't read it yet myself, but John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is on my reading list with this note from a rationalist-fiction-loving friend of mine: "There'll be like twenty pages of epic zombie fighting, and then thirty pages on the logistics of salvaging supplies from abandoned ships. And the characters are complicated and nuanced but nearly everyone is super competent (or dies)."