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ARTICLES RELATED TO Military science fiction - History | | | |  Military science fiction - History: Encyclopedia II - Military science fiction - HistoryPerhaps the first works of modern Military SF were H. Beam Piper's Uller Uprising (1952) (based on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny) and the same author's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (1965). Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) is another pivotal early work of Military SF, and mostly responsible for spreading this sub-genre's popularity to young readers of the time.
The start of Military SF as a recognized sub-genre might be placed at the publication of Combat SF (ISBN 0441115314, edited by Gordo ...
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| | | | Military science fiction - History: Encyclopedia II - Military science fiction - Characteristics At its best (as in, for example, Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers or Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan novels), military SF examines hard questions about the ethics of violence, individuality versus collectivity, and the relationship between the military and its society. At its worst, military SF becomes simple carnography (pornography of violence).
Frequently, the conflict is assumed to be inevitable (humans vs. aliens, democracies vs. dictatorships, etc.), and the military approach is not questioned. (Howeve ...
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| | | | Military science fiction - History: Encyclopedia II - Military science fiction - Authors Defining authors of the genre include:
Robert A. Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers, among other books.
David Drake, author of the Hammer's Slammers series and other works;
Jerry Pournelle, author of A Spaceship for the King, Falkenberg's Legion and the Janissaries series;
John Ringo, author of the Legacy of the Aldenata, Empire of Man, and The Council Wars series;
S. M. Stirling, author of The General series, and the Draka series;
David Weber, ...
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| | | | Military science fiction - History: Encyclopedia II - Military science fiction - Viewpoint A growing tendency in military SF, largely due to the conservative authors who have dominated the genre in recent years, is to portray democratic government with a certain level of contempt, as bloated, corrupt, inefficient and openly antagonistic to its military protectors (who as the protagonists are typically portrayed as good and noble) and liberals exclusively as out-of-touch ivory tower academics and idealists who must invariably be protected from themselves. Some works in the genre openly admit they have been written to transport cert ...
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