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General Military Science Fiction Anthologies

Which Classic Military SciFi Anthology Series Do You Like Best?

  • The Fleet - David Drake

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My Grandfather was awarded an Albert Medal (Convertible later to GC). Having heard his version and the official version, not all the details make it to the official citation...Probably a good thing.
 
IIRC, Solomon Caine is more tech focused. Checking, he;s 16th to 17th C. So, still in the pulp past. It's written in a style that feels to some as Sci-Fi, in the same way that Vance's Dying Earth and Burroughs' Barsoom do...


I'd say the overtly supernatural elements in the Solomon Kane stories and the lack of speculative science or advanced technology mark them as pretty clearly what we now call fantasy.
And while sci fi, fantasy, and so on certainly existed in the pulp era didn't have such neatly defined genres and subgenres. That developed rather later and has a lot to do with the publishing industry and how books were marketed.


I'm a fan of Howard, as I said, but also of Vance's Dying Earth and ERB's Barsoom.


EDIT

I forgot Robert E. Howard's Almuric. It's planetary romance, and thus a sort of sci fi or the next thing to it.
 
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