Hmm, that would be nice. (It's strange sometimes, being a military-SF fan while coming from a completely different political side than its writers tend to be on.) One of my favourite novels in the universe could be described as "space opera with mercenaries", so that packs a lot of appeal right there. :D
Since Baen is responsible for the far-rightwing-political-agenda-masquerading-as-a-novel that I'm currently slogging through, I have to say I won't be heartbroken if you go elsewhere. Sigh. There ought to be a rule, like there is about Mary Sues: if you have to keep putting little comments in the text about how your character world is not a Mary Sue utopia... it's a Mary Sue utopia.
Thought it ought not be, because People Don't Really Act Like That; if you remove all government oversight and expect corporations to not poison their customers and work their employees to death, you have not read anything AT ALL about the Industrial Revolution, and I will regard your novel as the product of a particularly ill-educated twelve-year-old boy.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chiming
no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 05:03 pm (UTC)From:Since Baen is responsible for the far-rightwing-political-agenda-masquerading-as-a-novel that I'm currently slogging through, I have to say I won't be heartbroken if you go elsewhere. Sigh. There ought to be a rule, like there is about Mary Sues: if you have to keep putting little comments in the text about how your
characterworld is not aMary Sueutopia... it's aMary Sueutopia.Thought it ought not be, because People Don't Really Act Like That; if you remove all government oversight and expect corporations to not poison their customers and work their employees to death, you have not read anything AT ALL about the Industrial Revolution, and I will regard your novel as the product of a particularly ill-educated twelve-year-old boy.