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.
Space opera, which is science fiction at war or at least among soldiers, is so predominant that many likely think of space opera scenes when they think about SF. It is easy to sympathize with the technically literate, scientifically curious Hard SF reader. So too attest all the warrior aspects of the fantasy genre, whether one is enjoying one of the field's classics or a video game.
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.
Many parents might be reluctant to expose their children to realistic war stories for fear of glamorizing violence or even inspiring them to enlist. They might be relieved to know there is less risk exposing young people to violence in written media rather than there is in the immediate shock provided by TV and film. These days, a parent might hesitate before restricting almost any decent material that might influence their child toward a life of reading.
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.
Stories of combat have energized young men for thousands of years. Many may object, and their objections should receive a fair hearing. But the distribution of war literature could also lead to more boys learning to read and more men going in for their check-ups.
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.
Space opera, which is science fiction at war or at least among soldiers, is so predominant that many likely think of space opera scenes when they think about SF. It is easy to sympathize with the technically literate, scientifically curious Hard SF reader. So too attest all the warrior aspects of the fantasy genre, whether one is enjoying one of the field's classics or a video game.
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.
Many parents might be reluctant to expose their children to realistic war stories for fear of glamorizing violence or even inspiring them to enlist. They might be relieved to know there is less risk exposing young people to violence in written media rather than there is in the immediate shock provided by TV and film. These days, a parent might hesitate before restricting almost any decent material that might influence their child toward a life of reading.
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.
Stories of combat have energized young men for thousands of years. Many may object, and their objections should receive a fair hearing. But the distribution of war literature could also lead to more boys learning to read and more men going in for their check-ups.
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