History Creator / JohnHemry

'''John Hemry''' is an American writer of SpeculativeFiction, being best known for MilitaryScienceFiction which draws on his experience as an United States naval officer. He wrote two series under his own name, the ''Stark's War'' and ''Paul Sinclair'' series. Poor sales had him resort to a pen name '''Jack Campbell''' for ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' series; its success has lead to the reissue of his earlier work (with both bylines listed on the cover).

Wiki/TheOtherWiki has more [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Hemry here]].

* ArmiesAreEvil / StrawCivilian: Explored and desconstructed. Both ''Literature/StarksWar'' and ''Beyond the Fronter'' (part of ''Literature/TheLostFleet'') deal with the topic of military-civilian relations, and each side believes that one of these tropes is in effect — the military sees the civilian government as corrupt, petty, ineffective, and ungrateful, whereas the civilians see the military as warmongering, insubordinate, would-be dictators. In reality, there are good and bad people on both sides, and the mutual distrust is bad for the whole society.

TheOtherWiki has more [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Hemry here]].

** ''Literature/TheGenesisFleet (2017 onwards)

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Leans pretty strongly towards the idealism side of things. Winning may require fighting, but it also requires reforming systems and building bridges. Antagonists are seldom cackling villains; rather, they're [[TrappedInVillainy can't escape the evils of the system they've been indoctrinated into]], or are [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned]] but stuck in a [[PoorCommunicationKills cycle of miscommunication and distrust]]. Evil is frequently less about personal depravities than it is about flawed systems and institutions — and those can be fixed, resisted, or replaced. (See: [[Literature/StarksWar Stark]] dissenting against a lethally incompetent military hierarchy; [[Literature/PaulSinclair Sinclair]] resisting miscarriages of military justice; [[Literature/TheLostFleet Geary]] reforming dangerous and unethical military doctrines and trying to improve civilian-military relations; [[Literature/TheLostStars Drakon and Iceni]] rebelling against a repressive, poisonous government; [[Literature/ThePillarsOfReality Mari and Alain]] defying their mutually-hostile, closed-minded Guilds.)

'''John Hemry''' is an American writer of SpeculativeFiction — notably MilitaryScienceFiction, drawn on his experience as an United States naval officer. He wrote two series under his own name, the ''Stark's War'' and ''Paul Sinclair'' series. Poor sales had him resort to a pen name '''Jack Campbell''' for ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' series; its success has lead to the reissue of his earlier work (with both bylines listed on the cover).

'''John Hemry''' is an American writer of military SF, drawn on his experience as an United States naval officer. He wrote two series under his own name, the ''Stark's War'' and ''Paul Sinclair'' series. Poor sales had him resort to a pen name '''Jack Campbell''' for ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' series; its success has lead to the reissue of his earlier work (with both bylines listed on the cover).

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Leans pretty strongly towards the idealism side of things. Winning may require fighting, but it also requires reforming systems and building bridges. Antagonists are seldom cackling villains; rather, they're [[TrappedInVillainy can't escape the evils of the system they've been indoctrinated into]], or are [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned]] but stuck in a [[PoorCommunicationKills cycle of miscommunication and distrust]]. Evil is frequently less about personal depravities than it is about flawed systems and institutions — and those can be fixed, resisted, or replaced. (See: [[Literature/StarksWar Stark]] dissenting against a lethally incompetent military hierarchy; [[Literature/PaulSinclair Sinclair]] resisting miscarriages of military justice; [[Literature/TheLostFleet Geary]] reforming dangerous and unethical military doctrines and trying to improve civilian-military relations; [[Literature/TheLostStars Drakon and Iceni]] rebelling against a repressive, poisonous government.)

!!Works by John Hemry that have their own pages:
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet''
* ''Literature/TheLostStars''
* ''Literature/PaulSinclair''
* ''Literature/StarksWar''

!!Works by John Hemry that have their own pages

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!!Tropes found in his work

* ArmchairMilitary: All the officers Stark faces
* MeaningfulName: The [=McClellan=] tank
* ReassignedToAntarctica: One threat is guard duty at the lunar pole

'''John Hemry''' is an American writer of military SF, drawn on his experience as an United States naval officer. He wrote two series under his own name, the ''Stark's War'' and ''Paul Sinclair'' series. Poor sales had him resort to a pen name '''Jack Campbell''' for ''TheLostFleet'' series; its success has lead to the reissue of his earlier work (with both bylines listed on the cover).

* ''TheLostFleet''