Pollyanna meets Starship Troopers in this serial about a 30-something Marine called out of retirement to help fight the war against the alien crabs. But shattered morale is the least of the company’s problems . . . .
Note: Spots the Space Marine contains some graphic violence and harsh language.
Tags: action · aliens · military · online novels · science fiction
Listed: Mar 15, 2010
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I’m only partway through what’s been posted so far, but I’m completely sucked in by this piece. What the author (who is also an artist—the intro pages are done as a webcomic and then it switches to prose) has done is present this almost like a screenplay, so that instead of a traditional prose narrative, the reader gets a steady [more . . .]
Not many science fiction stories have a mother and wife as the heroic centerpiece; Spots the Space Marine is one of them.
The plot is your standard Starship Troopers fare with a few subtle variations; hungry space bugs threaten earth and it’s up to the Marines to curb stomp them. They’re [more . . .]
Theme is an interesting thing. It can be expressed through event, through the intention of a character, through narrative- choice of storyline, literary style, the whole gamut. It could be expressed through paper type, in a printed book, or site design, on a website.
Spots is, more than anything else, a [more . . .]
