Reviews

Rick Partlow’s Archangel kicks off the Archangel series with a rocket-assisted leap into powered armor warfare, black-ops politics, and transhuman morality. Partlow blends the pace of a modern shooter with themes pulled from Heinlein and Scalzi, military service, cybernetic identity, and the price of obedience.

Jeffery H. Haskell’s Against All Odds launched his Grimm’s War series, staking a claim in modern military sci‑fi with echoes of Honor Harrington and David Weber.

Michael Simon’s First Command opens the gripping Terran Defender series, delivering a hard-hitting military sci-fi tale. The novel tackles themes of duty, courage under pressure, and the complexities of first-time leadership, complete with heart-pounding space battles, political machinations, and interstellar intrigue.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers in 1959, a landmark military science-fiction novel that shaped the genre. He paints vivid scenes of military life and the gear they wield—especially the powered armor the Mobile Infantry wears—which later writers still draw on. But the book also sparks debate, it ties full citizenship to military service, a stance critics slam as echoing fascist themes.