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Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction and military fiction that depicts the use of science fiction technology, including spaceships and weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization, usually during a war; occurring sometimes in outer space or on a different planet or planets.
Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft.
Space warfare is a main theme and central setting of science fiction that can trace its roots back to classical times, and to the "future war" novels of the 19th century. . With the modern age, directly with franchises as Star Wars and Star Trek, it is considered one of the most popular general sub-genres and themes of science fiction
Battlestar Galactica is a fictional space battleship based in the science fiction television series of the same name.In the original 1978 series, it was implied there were 12 Battlestars, one for each of the Twelve Colonies.
Space Battleship Yamato III (宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII, Uchū Senkan Yamato Surī), also known as Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars, [5] is a Japanese military science fiction anime series produced by Academy Productions. It is the sequel to Be Forever Yamato created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto.
The Encyclopedia of science fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. D'Ammassa, D. (2004). Encyclopedia of science fiction. N.Y., Facts On File. H. Bruce Franklin (1988), War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, about war as a theme in US imaginative fiction. James, E. and F. Mendlesohn (2003). The Cambridge companion to science ...
Countless other shorter works of BattleTech fiction have been published in BattleCorps, as novellas, or in BattleTech magazines or in BattleTech tabletop game rule books. These works of fiction take place in the BattleTech universe of the 31st and 32nd centuries. They can be considered space opera [1] and military science fiction. [2]
The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series written by John G. Hemry under the pen name Jack Campbell. The series is set one-hundred-plus years into an interstellar war between two different human cultures, the Alliance and the Syndicate.