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So this is happening:

https://www.facebook.com/USSpaceForceDoD/

Which makes me wonder, among all the Star Fleets and Space Patrols and Star Ship Troopers and Galaxy Rangers has there been a Space Force in fiction?

Well there is "Die beste Frau der Space Force" (the best woman of the Space Force) from about 2001 by Wolfgang Hohlbein. Please don't judge me, cause I know this, I read a lot of SciFi, not only the good stuff.


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Oh and of course in the old Perry Rhodan pulp novellas (ca, 1961 and younger) there's the U.S. Space Force.

Believe I would end up with more examples from literature thinking about it.

Ohhh, Perry Rhodan. That takes me back. Did you know the series is still going?

There’s the post-Heresy Imperial Fleet?

I guess that counts. Because if it doesn’t, it’ll bombard your system into oblivion?

Bran Dawri wrote:
Ohhh, Perry Rhodan. That takes me back. Did you know the series is still going?

Yeah, volume 3000 was published last year. They even have some of the newer ones in the public library here.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So this is happening:

https://www.facebook.com/USSpaceForceDoD/

Which makes me wonder, among all the Star Fleets and Space Patrols and Star Ship Troopers and Galaxy Rangers has there been a Space Force in fiction?

Gundam UC Timeline;

Earth Federation Space Force. Of course, they eventually thought that name was kind of dumb, and instead hired some kids to come up with cooler names, like Titans, and Lando Bell

U.N Spacy in Macrosse always struck me as a weird name but... Okay?

Apparently the logic was Army, Navy, Spacy...

Might have made more sense in Japanese.


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 Max Moray wrote:
Well there is "Die beste Frau der Space Force" (the best woman of the Space Force) from about 2001 by Wolfgang Hohlbein. Please don't judge me, cause I know this, I read a lot of SciFi, not only the good stuff.

This is hysterical



They used the same art for Heinlein's Friday, I thought for a minute it was the translation.

 Max Moray wrote:

Bran Dawri wrote:
Ohhh, Perry Rhodan. That takes me back. Did you know the series is still going?

Yeah, volume 3000 was published last year. They even have some of the newer ones in the public library here.

Cool. I still have a bunch of the old ones in Dutch in my parents' attic, including some of the very first ones, #1000, and getting more complete as the numbers get higher. If memory serves up to ~1500 somewhere.
Wonder if those are worth anything now. I suspect not as it's too much of a niche market, but stranger things have happened.

Edit: @ Kid, yeah, thought that looked familiar. One of his better novels, though not his best work by miles.

Starcom: The U.S. Space Force -

There's the Royal Space Force in Wings of Honneamise.

And it's been a while, but I think the heroes of Gunbuster were members of the United Nations Space Force.

beast_gts wrote:
Starcom: The U.S. Space Force -

Spoiler:

Perfect!

I remember the toys vaguely but never saw the cartoon, that actually looks kinda sorta good.

Hopefully they'll use in a recruiting ad!

Meh - should be called Low Orbit Air Force if anything. Damn LOAFers!

Space Force sounds way better than Satellite Force......

Space Force was founded just so the Air Force and Coasties would have someone to make fun of.

Prove me wrong.

How long until we create the.... Space Marines?

The reality is so boring!



BOO!

Should have gone with this.....

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Apparently the logic was Army, Navy, Spacy...

Might have made more sense in Japanese.


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 Max Moray wrote:
Well there is "Die beste Frau der Space Force" (the best woman of the Space Force) from about 2001 by Wolfgang Hohlbein. Please don't judge me, cause I know this, I read a lot of SciFi, not only the good stuff.

This is hysterical



They used the same art for Heinlein's Friday, I thought for a minute it was the translation.

Yea... Space is the first thing I imagien when I see that image, but yes. Long live glorius pulp covers like that one.