Military Science Fiction

[magpie Asylum]

Ok so weird flex but lets do this.
You are tasked with writing a short story about a platoon of soldiers that are left behind after the Government they were fighting for collapses from internal conflict. They are on a hostile planet and have limited resources and complex political opinions about the war.

How do you write this?

 

[Brian G Turner]

Ok so weird flex but lets do this.
You are tasked with writing a short story about a platoon of soldiers that are left behind after the Government they were fighting for collapses from internal conflict. They are on a hostile planet and have limited resources and complex political opinions about the war.

How do you write this?

I'd ask in the Writing section - this is more a general discussion of Military SF.

 

[Foxbat]

Haven’t read this yet but thought I’d mention the fact that I got David Drake’s Seas Of Venus for free on kindle. I’ve never read his stuff but, apparently, he wrote Hammer’s Slammers. Anybody interested should check out Amazon.

 

[alexvss]

The newest volume of Love, Death and Robots had some neat military sci-fi. Two stories were from Cohesion Press' SNAFU anthologies, Survival of the Fittest and Unnatural Selection. I read the stories, and I found the source material to be better than the adaptations. They're both for free at Amazon.