Tag: Military Science Fiction
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Soccer Mom
A complete short story that is not in my usual style. There is violence, gore, cursing, and death. Read at your own peril. Look, I’m not always about cute fluffy dragons, ok?
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Soccer Mom
A short story presented in full, with a warning: this is not my usual style. This is a military science fiction story with violence, gore, and cursing.
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Top 100 Military Science Fiction Books
I realized that although I have made many lists of books, I have never done a list for military science fiction, one of my favorite sub-genres to read. An online friend asked about recommendations, so I did what I usually do, and crowdsourced the list-making. Over 300 comments later… No, not all of them were…
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ETWYRT: Tom Kratman
(mirror-posted from the Otherwhere Gazette because I have an Organic Chemistry exam) Today’s reading and recipe come from Tom Kratman, best known for his military science fiction and alternative history books. I’ve been reading Kratman since his first book and his skills have grown exponentially since that endeavour. When I asked him for a dish,…
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Eat This While you Read That: Marko Kloos
And here’s the dish that began this series for me. Marko Kloos shared a lovely picture of his breakfast one snowy recent morning, and the First Reader looked at it and asked if we could find some of that jam and try it… As I was shopping online for it (it was snowy here, too!…
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Review: Duty from Ashes
I had been looking forward to this book, had pre-ordered it as soon as I could, and then on the day it downloaded to my Kindle I was too busy to be able to read it. I did manage to find time over Thanksgiving Break to take it in, and was rewarded for my time.…
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Military Science Fiction and Females
I’m a huge Mil-SF (military science fiction) fan. I have been since I discovered Drake and Ringo and I haven’t looked back. I find I’m much more partial to the books by those two authors: epic, ground battles, and the struggle of the common soldier. The grand sweeping space battles tend to leave me cold.…
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Review: Vengeance From Ashes
Ever have a book you were reading, even though you had no business making time to read, and you resented life for intruding and making you have to stop every few pages? Yeah, Vengeance From Ashes is like that. I have missed this kind of mil-SF since I stopped reading the Honor Harrington series, which…
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Interview with John McClure
This is cross-posted from Amazing Stories, where my blog posts appear weekly. Tomorrow, if anyone would like (I realize about 5 of you read this blog, and I’m related to half of you) I will post a snippet of a story. Dont’ know which one, yet, probably not the one I’m working on, as it’s…
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Review of Puss & Boots in the 23rd Century
I interviewed John McClure over at Amazing Stories, and as promised, here is the review of his first novel, Puss & Boots in the 23rd Century. P&B, as he calls it, and I will as well for sake of brevity, is a rousing good tale of a dystopian world in the throes of recovery. Not,…