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.
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.
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.
It isn't unusual for children to become obsessive toward a single genre. Girls and boys both enjoy the fantasy genre. A dash of high tech and it turns into SF. Boys favoring more realistic reading material often favor war literature almost exclusively, at least for a period of time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It isn't unusual for children to become obsessive toward a single genre. Girls and boys both enjoy the fantasy genre. A dash of high tech and it turns into SF. Boys favoring more realistic reading material often favor war literature almost exclusively, at least for a period of time.
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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