When you love to read, you are always looking for new directions to take yourself, to explore new genres. One such genre that you might wish to consider is the war novel, or special forces military fiction novels. Sometimes, when the author has the opportunity to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, he can spin a more truthful yarn than he could if he were writing a non-fiction feature article.
Most 21st century war novels are set in just about every continent apart from North America. While this generation of war stories will be mainly about the Gulf wars and the Balkan conflicts, the Baby Boomer generation were generating stories about the Vietnam War. Their parents were living and writing about Korea and World War II. The next generation could well feature inter-planetary conflicts.
The special forces, such as the Navy SEALS, are a popular topic. Special ops teams tend to be smaller units, making it easier for the author to fully develop characters. Special ops teams also seem to get the most gripping, fast-paced stories.
War leaves a powerful mark upon a person's life and writing about it can be cathartic. This could explain the plethora of series of novels, such as Josef Black's, "The Blades, " a series of novels about SAS special ops. The latest book is set in 1997 during the uneasy peace following conflict in the Balkans. Previous novels were set in Sierra Leone, Colombia, Paris, London, and even Las Vegas.
Also, there are the "AFTER" novels, a post-apocalyptic series about managing life after a giant solar storm kills millions and millions of people. The world's technological structure, i. E., the Internet, is also destroyed. Survivors learn to cope with life without Twitter and a new breed of survivor, the "Zapheads."
If you are by nature a sci-fi fan, why not try military sci-fi? Here, the plots are taken from actual historical events but brought up to date and told on a much larger scale, where battles take place between planets or galaxies instead of countries. Star Trek TNG, set in the 24th century, applied this principle in an episode featuring the story of the third century B. C. King Gilgamesh of Mesopotamia.
Readers have been captivated by war stories since the days of Virgil and Homer and the Aenid and the Iliad, respectively. Although the stories and the characters themselves may not be true to life, it is possible to cram a lot of realistic detail in the descriptions of the scenery, characters and how they lived.
So, what next for 21st century war stories and beyond? Emerging stories will most likely concern the emerging cold war between Russia and a growing contingent of the western world. What is really going to set the cat amongst the pigeons is if the Navy decide, as they are in the process of doing, whether to include women in special ops units like the Navy SEALs. We could see a whole new generation of heroins and an added dimension of human wartime relationships.
Most 21st century war novels are set in just about every continent apart from North America. While this generation of war stories will be mainly about the Gulf wars and the Balkan conflicts, the Baby Boomer generation were generating stories about the Vietnam War. Their parents were living and writing about Korea and World War II. The next generation could well feature inter-planetary conflicts.
The special forces, such as the Navy SEALS, are a popular topic. Special ops teams tend to be smaller units, making it easier for the author to fully develop characters. Special ops teams also seem to get the most gripping, fast-paced stories.
War leaves a powerful mark upon a person's life and writing about it can be cathartic. This could explain the plethora of series of novels, such as Josef Black's, "The Blades, " a series of novels about SAS special ops. The latest book is set in 1997 during the uneasy peace following conflict in the Balkans. Previous novels were set in Sierra Leone, Colombia, Paris, London, and even Las Vegas.
Also, there are the "AFTER" novels, a post-apocalyptic series about managing life after a giant solar storm kills millions and millions of people. The world's technological structure, i. E., the Internet, is also destroyed. Survivors learn to cope with life without Twitter and a new breed of survivor, the "Zapheads."
If you are by nature a sci-fi fan, why not try military sci-fi? Here, the plots are taken from actual historical events but brought up to date and told on a much larger scale, where battles take place between planets or galaxies instead of countries. Star Trek TNG, set in the 24th century, applied this principle in an episode featuring the story of the third century B. C. King Gilgamesh of Mesopotamia.
Readers have been captivated by war stories since the days of Virgil and Homer and the Aenid and the Iliad, respectively. Although the stories and the characters themselves may not be true to life, it is possible to cram a lot of realistic detail in the descriptions of the scenery, characters and how they lived.
So, what next for 21st century war stories and beyond? Emerging stories will most likely concern the emerging cold war between Russia and a growing contingent of the western world. What is really going to set the cat amongst the pigeons is if the Navy decide, as they are in the process of doing, whether to include women in special ops units like the Navy SEALs. We could see a whole new generation of heroins and an added dimension of human wartime relationships.
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