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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
I know about Starship Troopers. Also about Weber's Honor Harrington series.
I could reel off a slew of other titles that fit in the general category, but I'm interested to hear which books, in your estimation, epitomize military science fiction. What distinguishes the subgenre from, say, near-future thrillers or space operas which happen to involve a military aspect? What are the core elements that make it military SF, and not something else?
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Jerry Pournelle's Falkenberg's Legion series (some of his other military SF, such as King David's Spaceship and the Janissaries series are pretty good as well) and Drake's Hammer's Slammers stories.
Basically IMPO Military SF is centered on the military and military conflict in the future. I would tend to put the Honor Harrington series in more of the Space Opera category (which is not a bad thing).