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.
Rules are meant to be broken, and the war genre is rapacious at poaching other genres' treasure. This is particularly so with science fiction. Space opera is perennially the most popular sub-category in SF, both on bookstands and on the screen. It is the form of SF likeliest to be cast in a completely military setting, however imaginary. Characters will exist in a strict hierarchy of rank. There might be spacecraft massed into squadrons, firing at other massed squadrons. If on a planet, there are likely as not gun battles with beam guns blazing.
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 field of spy and espionage stories can be seen as a subgenre of the war story. Their relationship is akin to the way intelligence is a facet of a nation's armed forces. Almost every fictional spy holds rank in an armed force, and typically was recruited from one into the intelligence service. In this sense the espionage story is a subgenre of war story identified by its branch of arms, akin to the subgenres focused on air combat or submarine warfare.
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.
It is common among children to focus obsessively upon a particular genre. Sometimes it is girls and fantasy, with its dragons and wizards. Add technological elements and it becomes science fiction. Boys who need more realism sometimes seem to tune in to war stories and little else when it comes to reading 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.
Rules are meant to be broken, and the war genre is rapacious at poaching other genres' treasure. This is particularly so with science fiction. Space opera is perennially the most popular sub-category in SF, both on bookstands and on the screen. It is the form of SF likeliest to be cast in a completely military setting, however imaginary. Characters will exist in a strict hierarchy of rank. There might be spacecraft massed into squadrons, firing at other massed squadrons. If on a planet, there are likely as not gun battles with beam guns blazing.
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 field of spy and espionage stories can be seen as a subgenre of the war story. Their relationship is akin to the way intelligence is a facet of a nation's armed forces. Almost every fictional spy holds rank in an armed force, and typically was recruited from one into the intelligence service. In this sense the espionage story is a subgenre of war story identified by its branch of arms, akin to the subgenres focused on air combat or submarine warfare.
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.
It is common among children to focus obsessively upon a particular genre. Sometimes it is girls and fantasy, with its dragons and wizards. Add technological elements and it becomes science fiction. Boys who need more realism sometimes seem to tune in to war stories and little else when it comes to reading 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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