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Military Science Fiction

This booklist will give you an overview of the military science fiction genre, articles about this subgenre and military SF books, sorted by author with short descriptions and links to relevant webpages.For further background on Science Fiction also see Science Fiction Focus. This is just what the author considers to be Military Science Fiction books - for a more authoritative Bibliography and a newer one with references please see Military Science Fiction Bibliography 2010 (thx for the rework Bastet).

[ Author: Gernot Hausar ]
[ Year: 2008 ]
[ Type:Booklist ]
[ Ressources ] - [ Definitions ] - [ Articles ]


What is Military Science Fiction?

Also see the extensive rework of this text: Military Science Fiction Definition - Bastet - 2010.

To explain it in a few words, it's about military in space. This said, it is naturally not so simple at all. There is no exact definition.

There are a variety of concepts which are a common occurence throughout the genre, like future concepts of war, military training, battle descriptions.

Definitions for Military Science Fiction

Stories that involve primarily military characters, who are engaged in wars either in space or for the control of specific planets.
Don d' Amassa: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1
Basically, the armed forces in space.
SFsite.com
Military science fiction looks at combat in future locations (space, another planet), against a range of opponents (modified humans, aliens, machines), with futuristic, high-tech weaponry (including genetically modified soldiers). While some military science fiction asks "how fast can we blast the bugs?" (Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers), many authors use this subgenre to address anti-war themes. David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series explores both the heroism and the carnage of warfare.
writing-world.com (Marg Gilks and Moira Allen)
For me, military science-fiction is science-fiction which is written about a military situation with a fundamental understanding of how military lifestyles and characters differ from civilian lifestyles and characters. It is science-fiction which attempts to realistically portray the military within a science-fiction context. It is not "bug shoots." It is about human beings, and members of other species, caught up in warfare and carnage. It isn't an excuse for simplistic solutions to problems.
Author David Drake in an Interview.
About hard militaristic SF at Baen Books: "...hard SF evolved into right wing power fantasies about military hardware, men killing things with big machines."
James, E and Mendlesohn, F (2003). Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge, C. University Press, p 193 ff.
Military science fiction is a subset of science fiction where interstellar or interplanetary conflict and its armed solution make up the backdrop of the story. Typically, the conflict is assumed to be inevitable (Humans vs. inhuman bugs, Democracies vs. Dictatorships, ...), and the military approach is not questioned. Traditional military values (discipline, courage, chain of command) are stressed, and the action is described from the point of view of a soldier or officer. Technology is advanced, but fairly static, wars are not primarily won by R&D or even logistics, but by willpower and military virtues.
wikipedia.en
One definition of military science fiction is science fiction in which the main characters are part of the chain of command.
wikipedia.en


Articles about Military Science Fiction

A

Allen - Roger McBride

Roger McBride Allen [ Amazon.de ]


B

Bear Elsiabeth

Bear Elsiabeth [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Jenny Casey Series]


Birmingham John

Birmingham John [ Amazon.de ]

Military time-travel series.

  • [Axis of Time Series]


Buettner Robert

Buettner Robert [ Amazon.de ]

  • Orphanage (Jason Wander): How to fight alien terrorists.

C

Campbell - Jack

Campbell Jack [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Lost Fleet Series]: A space fleet far behind enemy's lines struggles to get back to humanity controlled space.


Card - Orson Scott

Card Orson Scott [ Amazon.de ]

Ender's Game is followed by Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind, which are not considered Military SF.


Cherryh - C J

Cherryh C J [ Amazon.de ]

Military SF background with interesting characters and a lot of interesting world/culture background.

  • [Faded Sun Series]

Cobb - James H

Cobb James H [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Amanda Lee Garrett Series]

Cragg - Dan

Cragg Dan [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Starfist-Series]: Space Marines fight it out in the 25th century (with David Sherman).

D

Dickson - Gordon R

Dickson Gordon R [ Amazon.de ]

Focuses more on the effects of warfare than on the military aspects.

  • [Dorsai Series]: The career of space mercenary Donal Graeme.

Dietz - William C

Dietz William C [ Amazon.de ]

Not so many battle sequences.


Douglas - Ian

William Keith [ Amazon.de ]

Also known as: William Keith

  • [Heritage Series]: The UN and the US fight over alien artifacts on mars, moon and on the earth.


Drake - David

Drake David [ Amazon.de ]

While a lot of his novels are classic military science fiction, there are also other influences present (fantasy, supernatural).

  • Hammer’s Slammers Novels: The fights of Hammer's Slammers, a mercenary force, picturing both heroism and the carnage of warfare in the future.
  • [ RCN] - Royal Cinnabar Navy: Military adventures of the Heavy Cruiser RCS Milton with Captain Daniel Leary and his friend Adele Mundy.
  • RedLiners
  • Patriots: American Revolution (capture of Fort Ticonderoga)
  • All the Way to the Gallows: dark humor mil. SF.


F

Feintuch - David

Feintuch David [ Amazon.de ]

Classic military SF, Space Navy stories modelled after the British Navy ("Hornblower in space").

  • [Nicholas Seafort Series]


Frankowski - Leo

Frankowski Leo [ Amazon.de ]

Solid military SF.


G

Gerrold - David

Gerrold David [ Amazon.de ]

Pseudonym: Jerrold Friedman. Great, innovative military SF.

Grossmann - Dave

Grossmann Dave [ Amazon.de ]

Solid military SF.


H

Haldeman - Joe

Haldeman Joe [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Forever War Series]

Harrison - Harry

Harrison Harry [ Amazon.de ]

(Humorous) Military SF in the tradition of Starship Troopers.


Heinlein - Robert A

Heinlein Robert A [ Amazon.de ]

THE classic military SF novel.

  • Starship Troopers (1959): A young man joins the Mobile Infantry and fights Aliens throughout the universe.
  • Puppet Masters: Humanity matches with Invaders for control of Earth.

Huff - Tanya

Huff Tanya [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Confederation of Valor]: NonComm Officer vs Aliens.

Hunt - Walter H

Hunt Walter H [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Dark Wing Series]: Military SF with an emphasis on the morality of war.


K

Keith - William

William Keith [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Heritage Series]: The UN and the US fight over alien artifacts on mars, moon and on the earth.
  • [Legacy Trilogy]


L

Laumer- Keith

Laumer Keith [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Bolo Series]: Man and machine fight together against humanities enemies.


M

Matthews - Susan R

Matthews Susan R [ Amazon.de ]

McCaffrey - Anne

McCaffrey Anne [ Amazon.de ]

  • The City Who Fought (with S. M. Stirling): A human brain is the AI of a station under atack - the past life as a soldier comes in handy.
  • [ Sassinak] (Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon): A girl hunts down the space pirates that killed her parents.

McLaughlin - Dean

McLaughlin Dean [ Amazon.de ]

Military SF mixed with time-travel.

  • [ Hawk amongst the Sparrows] (1968)


McMaster Bujold - Lois

McMaster Bujold Lois [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Miles Vorkosigan Series]

MacLeod - Ken

MacLeod Ken [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Cassini Division]: Soldiers fight against god-like humans, transformed by technology.


Meluch - R M

Meluch R M [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Merrimack Series]: Military SF with a lot of world building.


Moon - Elisabeth

Moon Elisabeth [ Amazon.de ]

Military SF (and F) with a lot of character building (strong female characters).

  • [Serrano Series]
  • [Serrano 2]
  • [Trading in Danger]
  • [Sassinak] (Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon): A girl hunts down the space pirates that killed her parents.


N

Neal - Asher

Neal Asher [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Shadow Of The Scorpion Series]: A spy works as a troubleshooter for the AIs, which now govern humanity and uncovers disturbing facts about them.


Niven - Larry

Niven Larry [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Man-Kzin Wars]: War between the tiger-like Kzin and humanity.

Norton - Andre

Norton Andre [ Amazon.de ]

Early military SF.


P

Pournelle - Jerry E

Pournelle Jerry E [ Amazon.de ]

Great (mercenary) military SF.

  • [Falkenberg Series]
  • [CoDominium novels]
  • Janissaries: Human soldiers are rescued by Aliens to fight their war on a distant planet.


R

Ringo - John

Ringo John [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Invasion Series]
  • [Legacy of the Aldenata / Posleen War Series]
  • [March] (David Weber & John Ringo)
  • [ March Up Country]
  • [ March to the Sea]
  • [ March to the Stars]


S

Saberhagen - Fred

Saberhagen Fred [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Berserker Series]: The adventures of a space adventurer.


Serviss - Garrett P

Serviss Garrett P [ Amazon.de ]

Early Military SF work.

  • [ Edison’s Conquest of Mars] (1898)


Shelley - Rick

Shelley Rick [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Dirgent Mercenary Corps Series]

Sherman - David

Sherman David [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Starfist-Series]: Space Marines fight it out in the 25th century (with David Sherman).


Stirling - S M

Stirling S M [ Amazon.de ]


Scalzi John

Scalzi John [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Old Man's War Series]


Smith - E E

Smith E E [ Amazon.de ]

E. E. "Doc" Smith

  • [Lensmen Books]

Steakley - John

Steakley John [ Amazon.de ]

  • Armor: A semi-concious human battlearmour serves two humans. This novel also deals with the psychological effects and the morality of war.

T

Todd - Larry S

Todd Larry S [ Amazon.de ]

  • [ The Warbots] (1968)

W

Weber - David

Weber David [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Honor Harrington Series]
  • [Saganami Island Series]
  • [March] (David Weber & John Ringo)
  • [March Up Country]
  • [March to the Sea]
  • [March to the Stars]
  • [Bolo Series]: Man and machine fight together against humanities enemies.
  • [Starfire Series] (with Steve white)

White - Steve

White Steve [ Amazon.de ]

  • [Starfire Series] with David Weber

Wells - H G

Wells H G [ Amazon.de ]

THE military SF classic.

  • [ War of the Worlds] (1898): Aliens attack the Earth which soon fights for survival.


Z

Zahn - Timothy

Zahn Timothy [ Amazon.de ]


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