“ One of the most obvious means that science fiction novel lean to reflect the mores of their age is in their depiction of warfare .
Novels written in the aftermath of the Second World War lean to show war as a straightforward battle between the forces of good and malefic , monumental armies collide upon resonant battlefields . The Cold War , and in particular the atomic dread associated with it , changed all that . Now one mighty battle was unconvincing to render a conclusion ( if it happened at all ) , but rather there was a aweary good sense of endless struggle ; and the concentration was more likely to be on civilian casualty than brave warriors … We are just now beginning to get a war fabrication comport from the backwash of the Iraq War . ” — Paul Kincaid , in his in vogue Science Fiction Skeptic Column over at Bookslut .
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