Military Fiction Books And Journals
Anyone running a doctor's office or any other kind of establishment with a waiting room should consider providing reading material their clients will enjoy. So many of these waiting rooms are either empty or filled with women's reading material. Military fiction books and magazines are especially popular among men and boys. Perhaps the fellows are stealing war books from lobbies nationwide. If not, office managers would do well to order some war stories.
Conventions include a realistic, usually historical setting and protagonists identifiable by uniform rather than spies, who are soldiers moving secretly among a civilian population and in civilian dress. They are usually stories with a large cast of characters even if told through a single character's point of view. Enthusiasts of the genre generally appreciate attention to tactics and strategy, as well as attention to the particulars of weapons and tools.
Appropriately, the military genre seems to conduct frequent raids into its neighbors' territory. It has certainly swallowed up a great deal of science fiction and fantasy. The most widely published and successfully filmed science fiction sub-genre remains space opera, and everything that makes it unique is war related. Of all science fiction's sub-genres it is by far the likeliest to have characters who are in some uniformed armed force, as well as fleets of spaceships attaching each other, and gunfights using energy weapons.
Military space opera dominates the SF field to where many casual readers assume it to be the whole of the genre. One can understand the plight of technologically sophisticated, "hard" science fiction lovers who wish it were not so. Further, it goes without saying that the fantasy genre is nearly overwhelmed with armored soldiers on horseback, defending some walled city or other.
The entire genre of espionage literature can be classified a sub-genre of war literature. This classification has espionage literature playing the same role with war literature that espionage agencies play among a nation's armed forces. Nearly any fictional intelligence agent of note has a background story of service in the combat arms, and were at some point identified from within that pool of fighting men. Most still hold rank.
Understandably, there will be discerning parents who balk before letting their children enjoy reading about Okinawa or Shiloh. It might comfort them to know that violent print material lacks the neurological impact of seeing the same violence in real-time on the screen. Today, though, any conscious parent might balk before striking what their child loves. There might not be too many opportunities to inspire a love of books.
Bright kids sometimes dedicate themselves to one type of literature for as long as several years. Some will be drawn toward fantasy, which offers magical beings and a vaguely medieval atmosphere. Those who prefer their settings more futuristic will incline toward SF. But many children aren't intrigued by wildly imaginative material.
War stories have quickened the male pulse since the moment Troy stopped burning. It is easy to understand the positions of those who would object. However, their distribution might help teach more young men how to read, and inspire more old men to visit the doctor.
Conventions include a realistic, usually historical setting and protagonists identifiable by uniform rather than spies, who are soldiers moving secretly among a civilian population and in civilian dress. They are usually stories with a large cast of characters even if told through a single character's point of view. Enthusiasts of the genre generally appreciate attention to tactics and strategy, as well as attention to the particulars of weapons and tools.
Appropriately, the military genre seems to conduct frequent raids into its neighbors' territory. It has certainly swallowed up a great deal of science fiction and fantasy. The most widely published and successfully filmed science fiction sub-genre remains space opera, and everything that makes it unique is war related. Of all science fiction's sub-genres it is by far the likeliest to have characters who are in some uniformed armed force, as well as fleets of spaceships attaching each other, and gunfights using energy weapons.
Military space opera dominates the SF field to where many casual readers assume it to be the whole of the genre. One can understand the plight of technologically sophisticated, "hard" science fiction lovers who wish it were not so. Further, it goes without saying that the fantasy genre is nearly overwhelmed with armored soldiers on horseback, defending some walled city or other.
The entire genre of espionage literature can be classified a sub-genre of war literature. This classification has espionage literature playing the same role with war literature that espionage agencies play among a nation's armed forces. Nearly any fictional intelligence agent of note has a background story of service in the combat arms, and were at some point identified from within that pool of fighting men. Most still hold rank.
Understandably, there will be discerning parents who balk before letting their children enjoy reading about Okinawa or Shiloh. It might comfort them to know that violent print material lacks the neurological impact of seeing the same violence in real-time on the screen. Today, though, any conscious parent might balk before striking what their child loves. There might not be too many opportunities to inspire a love of books.
Bright kids sometimes dedicate themselves to one type of literature for as long as several years. Some will be drawn toward fantasy, which offers magical beings and a vaguely medieval atmosphere. Those who prefer their settings more futuristic will incline toward SF. But many children aren't intrigued by wildly imaginative material.
War stories have quickened the male pulse since the moment Troy stopped burning. It is easy to understand the positions of those who would object. However, their distribution might help teach more young men how to read, and inspire more old men to visit the doctor.
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