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ApK · 12-11-2014, 12:21 PM

I know you mentioned it in the OP, but Starship Troopers epitomizes military SF for me.
I think it's because the book is ABOUT the workings of the future military. The actual bug war is secondary. It's about how a future military thinks, fights and relates to society...and the cool tech they employ.

The HH books I found bogged down in detail. To me they read like a dry, future military non-fiction book might read.

I've just started the third Empire of Man book (March to the Stars) and while I'm enjoying it well enough, the series so far might as well be ancient military fiction, not Military SF. It's about fighting with pikes, and mounted cav, and black powder weapons. The SF element is incidental in the majority of the story so far. It might as well have been written as one of these trendy anachronistic historical stories that are so popular in TV and movies these day.

I'm expecting to not be crazy about 1632 for the same reason.

ApK

12-11-2014, 12:21 PM	#5
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,389 Karma: 68329346 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	I know you mentioned it in the OP, but Starship Troopers epitomizes military SF for me. I think it's because the book is ABOUT the workings of the future military. The actual bug war is secondary. It's about how a future military thinks, fights and relates to society...and the cool tech they employ. The HH books I found bogged down in detail. To me they read like a dry, future military non-fiction book might read. I've just started the third Empire of Man book (March to the Stars) and while I'm enjoying it well enough, the series so far might as well be ancient military fiction, not Military SF. It's about fighting with pikes, and mounted cav, and black powder weapons. The SF element is incidental in the majority of the story so far. It might as well have been written as one of these trendy anachronistic historical stories that are so popular in TV and movies these day. I'm expecting to not be crazy about 1632 for the same reason. ApK Last edited by ApK; 12-11-2014 at 12:23 PM.