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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
I could easily be wrong but it was my impression that they objected to SEEING any military reference while looking on Baen (for what little they do have).
As catsittingstill said "Sure you can find non-military stuff on Baen, but you have to look for it...."
So maybe they just dislike having to see any "military" references.
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The impression I got from the original poster was that zie preferred mysteries to science fiction, and in particular to military science fiction. The jump from that to zie disliking having to even *see* any references to the military seems to have been made without much supporting evidence.
Baen offers a few mysteries (the Lord Darcy books were suggested, and that was helpful) but a mystery-lover is naturally going to be somewhat disappointed by the thin selection of mysteries on the Baen website. And Baen, while doubtless well-intentioned, doesn't even have a "Mysteries" tag, (the way they have a "Non-Fiction" tag and a "Fantasy" tag) which would make it slow going to pick them out.
So let's face it, for a reader of mysteries, Baen does leave a little something to be desired, and hoping for a publisher who concentrates on mysteries to have taken to e-books in the way Baen has seems perfectly reasonable.
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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
Saying that a military, or ex-military person, would be better at handling adversity is anathema to an emotoid.
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This seems to have gotten a bit personal. Nobody has called you a...um... "militoid" for enjoying military fiction. I don't see why it is necessary or appropriate to try to put down people who don't share your taste in reading material, and who are looking for something else.