Re: The Ernie Pyle of MilSF?

nebusj-@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus) wrote in
news:nebusj.1201707264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I am nearly completely ignorant about current military
science
fiction. So a recent used book store visit prompted a question
that may show the depths of what I don't know: what are the
mil-SF books written from the perspective of the war
correspondent, the person who may not have a specific combat
role but strives to make understandable the experience, perhaps
even (as Ernie Pyle did) doing some part to make the lives of
the servicemen better? And what are the best ones?

While it's not his central role in the story, Tam Olin, the
protagonist of Gordon Dickson's _Soldier, Ask Not_, is a news
reporter who serves as a war correspondent. He gives the reader an
outside view of the Dorsai, the Friendlies, and the various auxiliary
military forces in Dickson's Childe Cycle in the course of going
through his own process of Learning Better (both about the soldiers,
and about himself).

Mike
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