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Mycroft Holmes posted:Anything by Tom Krateman, especially Watch on the Rhine. Surprised we got this far before this book was mentioned. Short version John Ringo (whose collective works themselves deserve several posts here himself) wrote standard right wing military sci-fi porn in which our rugged and manly hero mows down the alien hordes using his super high-tech weaponry. Pretty regular stuff right by the admittedly low standards of the genre. But this is where Kratman came in. See amongst the tech the good guy aliens hand humanity is the ability to regenerate old people into younger bodies. So a lot of places use it to regenerate world war II vets and vietnam vets etc. Apart from Germany that who decide to use it to regenerate the Waffen SS. Yes the Waffen-SS. Now in the hands of a better author that might be the makings of a great moral dilemma. But no not Kratman. See all the SS characters are noble aryan supermen defending Germany despite the best efforts of the liberal and green governments to cripple the glorious German war-effort all the liberals etc are massive straw man caricatures while all the SS soldiers are noble warriors who had absolutely nothing to do with the Death camps. Yeah. Its basically nazi apologism the book that ends up with the SS overthrowing the German government because they're too limp-wristed and soft to fight the aliens properly. Ferrosol has a new favorite as of 12:17 on Jul 4, 2015 |
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They do also have Bujold who is quite leftwing and David Drake who started writing mil-sci-fi as a sort of therapy for his time in Vietnam On the other hand there's Ringo and Kratzman. Not to mention they nearly went bankrupt when they published Newt Gingrich's terrible alternate history novels
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Stexils posted:ben aaronovitch was also mentioned this page and i submit that his books commit the worst crime of all: being aggressively british to the point i can't even understand half the dialogue That's perfectly cromulent English my old fellow
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