War is serious business — and so is war-themed science fiction. Your mind may be leaping to the movie version of Starship Troopers. But the genre doesn’t have to be, writes Andrew Liptak, all about “bug hunts and unabashed jingoism.”
You may know Liptak as the local guy behind Geek Mountain State. The holder of an MA in military history from Norwich University, he’s written about science fiction for Kirkus Reviews, io9 and other publications. Now he’s coediting an anthology of military SF called War Stories, which its Kickstarter page describes thus:
It’s a look at the people ordered into impossible situations, asked to do the unthinkable, and those unable to escape from hell. It’s stories of courage under fire, and about the difficulties in making decisions that we normally would never make. It’s about what happens when the shooting stops, and before any trigger is ever pulled.
In other words, the kinds of issues that real soldiers face — in SF settings.
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