Half the world is male, but no one could tell that given the reading selections in most lobbies and waiting rooms. Maybe doctors have decided that pages filled with dresses, curtains, and gardens will keep their patients' pulses down. Otherwise, doctors should consider ordering a few military fiction books and journals, since they are a favorite among both men and women.
There are a few generic conventions which are conformed to, bent, or broken as the author dares and the editor permits. Narration is more likely than not to be told in first person, since the fictional memoir form is especially popular. There will be a potentially huge cast of supporting characters. The great majority of these will be soldiers at war. The genre's fans are known to favor detailed knowledge of all the tools of soldiering, as well as all a soldier's tactics.
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 whole genre of secret agent stories might also be understood as a sub-category of military stories. In this account, spy stories have the same relationship to war stories that espionage holds to the regular armed forces. The spy story can be thought of as a kind of military story dedicated to a particular theater of combat, fought by a particular kind of soldier. It would be analogous to fiction that focuses on naval battles, or special forces combat.
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.
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.
There are a few generic conventions which are conformed to, bent, or broken as the author dares and the editor permits. Narration is more likely than not to be told in first person, since the fictional memoir form is especially popular. There will be a potentially huge cast of supporting characters. The great majority of these will be soldiers at war. The genre's fans are known to favor detailed knowledge of all the tools of soldiering, as well as all a soldier's tactics.
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 whole genre of secret agent stories might also be understood as a sub-category of military stories. In this account, spy stories have the same relationship to war stories that espionage holds to the regular armed forces. The spy story can be thought of as a kind of military story dedicated to a particular theater of combat, fought by a particular kind of soldier. It would be analogous to fiction that focuses on naval battles, or special forces combat.
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.
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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