Comments on: The Veil War

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:01:17 +0000

Wow, I think I’ll definitely not check that out.

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:29:48 +0000

Definitely some rage-inducing badness in Salvation War, mostly the giant Idiot Ball that the “demons” had. Apparently some demons possess people to start school shootings, but Hell as a whole is still unfamiliar with firearms. The leaders are allegedly ancient demons who think on too long timescales to notice fast recent changes, but they’re also shit at noticing or dealing with large slow changes over time like the amount of people coming into Hell. Somehow Dante is mostly correct, but Hell has a serious shortage of tempters who offer forbidden knowledge or purveyors of dark secrets or spies or diplomats or in short anyone whose relationship with humans goes beyond the animalistic. Care about Earth? Nahh, humans couldn’t possibly do anything.

These aren’t “demons”. They’re ogres.

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:41:37 +0000

Thanks for the link.

I’m aiming more for the awesomeness rather than the rage-inducing badness. Though if I piss someone off enough that they create a whole website just for the “sole purpose of tearing this piece of shit a new one” at least I will have made a deep emotional connection with one reader.

By: Gwern

Gwern — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:09:17 +0000

If you're really interested in this vein of military fantasizing, might look into the Salvation War:

Very much David Drake-style conservative military SF, with an odd mix of awesomeness and rage-inducing badness.