http://kotaku.com/gaming/books/new-halo-book-cover-revealed-280180.php
David Drake says that the musical genre of military SF contracted in the late nineties , due to too many “ opportunist ” jumping into the literary genre , and the downsizing of the U.S. military .
I freely let in to being one of those who opportunistically jumped into the musical genre : I wrote Old Man ’s War in no belittled part because I walked into a bookstall in tardy 2000 , saw lots of milSF ( include book by what I called the “ Three Davids ” — Drake , Feintuch and Weber ) , and said “ well , I guess I ’ll stress write that , then . ” But since OMW was n’t publish until 2005 , I ca n’t be blamed for anything that materialise before then . Not my shift , dude .
Do you think that the genre has rebounded since then ?
My impression at the minute is that military science fiction is doing fine ; the sales of the sub - genre are merry congeneric to most other SF sub - genres , specially if you thrive “ milSF ” to include the Halo series of book , which are pretty much outsell everything else in SF at the moment ( give or take a Star Wars tie - in ) . We ’re all still getting our clocks cleaned by fantasy , but that ’s par for the course these days . But in SF , milSF is chugging along fine .
Is the interview for books like Old Man ’s War the same as the mass who were reading Drake ’s Koran in the former ninety ?
I ’m sure there ’s overlap ; from what we live of OMW ’s audience it contains a clean wide spectrum of readers . I ’m reasonably sure I and David Drake ( then and now ) share some readers .
Now , if we grant that the Halo Scripture qualify as milSF ( which I think we should ) , I doubt that there ’s much intersection there at all , since in the former 90s the people who are say the Halo books today were , like , five . What Drake and other milSF folks can hope for in that event is that the reader of the Halo books do a small stretch and try other books of a milSF bent ( i.e. , “ Hey , this does n’t have Master Chief in it , but it still might be cool . ” )
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