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Halo's Master Chief Is A Major Literary Figure

The books tying in with the Halo game may be bringing younger readers who've never heard of Heinlein to military science fiction, says John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War. We wrote to Scalzi to ask his thoughts about the "milSF" sub-genre's prospects, and he was pretty upbeat, if not quite Souza-esque. His thoughts, below the jump. More »

10:40 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,079 views, 10 comments

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The Rise And Fall -- And Rise -- Of Military SF

David Drake hit a career snag in the late 1990s. Drake, who had helped to create the military science fiction genre with his Hammer's Slammers books, saw a shrinking market for novels about interstellar warfare. So Drake switched to fantasy, and then space-opera. Now, Drake is back writing more Hammer's Slammers stories, and military SF seems to be having a comeback. What happened? More »

10:00 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,045 views, 21 comments

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Killing Aliens Runs In The Family

The Old Man's War universe isn't just for men any more. A new quasi-sequel will follow the old man's daughter into more battles with claim-jumping aliens. That's just one of the many, many books that military SF maven John Scalzi is putting out in 2008 and 2009. Scalzi's newly announced pipeline also includes a sequel to his blue-sheep comedy The Android's Dream. All the dirt, below the fold. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By charliejane
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You can draw a direct line of descent from Rudyard Kipling to Robert Heinlein, and from Heinlein to today's military science fiction authors. Too bad none of Kipling's acolytes deal with the realities of war as well as he did, argues Jeet Heer. [Sans Everything]

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