/lit/ - Literature

>>18731038
I don't get why this one is so popular either.

Again, there's supposed to be a genocidal alien invasion... but the author spends the first three chapters talking about the main character's civilian programming job and the office politics there, and then a military conference where all anybody says is that everything is secret and they can't discuss it, and then a chapter for a flashback where the main character... changes a flat tire.

Why is so much military sci-fi so damn boring? For comparison, I've read a lot of real life military memoirs lately. and the authors of those are usually self-aware. They hardly spend any time talking about their personal lives, and focus only on the action and other interesting anecdotes.