which singapore military novel is there good???

ray243 SG

I was wondering, is there any military novels that potray SAF in the correct manner? I've read a book written by a ex-USAF major called the last phenoix. The story is telling the arabs countries joined to take saudi arbia and china taking S.E.A . It find it laughable that the author called the SAF the SA( singapore army) and how the USVG (US volunteer group) a squadorn of A-10 the only major air cover we have. There is no mention of any SAF land force fighting and no mention of our F-5 and A-4. there is also very little mention of our F-16 in comabt.

I want to ask , is there any good Singpaore military novels there???

LazerLordz SG

Hardly.In fact, I think there might be a interest in novels involving the SEA armies in a detailed and accurate light, with information gathered from the public domain of course.Nothing beats reading a novel and being able to identify with the terminology.Why not write your own local military fiction and post it on fictionpress.com?

Jesus Christ SG

The Missing Page by Douglas Chua

Crisis in the Straits - Malaysia invades Singapore
Sequel to the Missing Page
by Douglas Chua

Cool

aerozapper SG

Missing Page and it’s sequel aren’t very realistic (in my opinion). In addition, the books have more to do with espionage and detective work than military confrontation.

Jesus Christ SG

i forgot to add, its probably the best we got here.

ray243 SG

u think i can write, oh plz, i onli a ncc cadet

Moxie SG

There's none, even if you aren't harkening for a Tom Clancy-level parallel. Douglas Chia & Wee Ee Hon ("Ko Island") are the only local writers I can think of whose recent publications dealt with some sort of SAF sensibility. There was also this NS account by an author whose name currently escapes me, with "Air Level" featured prominently in the title - will let you know on both tomorrow. Plus, I posted before that Mickey Chiang included an engagingly "realistic" short story that opened the SAF "Fighting Fit" coffee book of 1990.

IMO The best localized narratives - not necessarily fictional - are still those which depicted the Emergency Years. In particular, I recommend a couple: Noel Barber's "War of the Running Dogs" &, my favorite, F. Spencer Chapman's "The Jungle Is Neutral". (Found $1 copies of both at a Bras Basah bookshop this year.) Of course, the SAF didn't exist then & most of the dramatic action took place in the Malayan jungles.

aerozapper SG

I enjoyed reading Wee Ee Hon's book, Ko Island: Will NS Men fight, but at the end of they day it comes off sounding a bit like propaganda rather then a true blue war story.

Still, I think it's a reasonably good short story. It's also not really realistic but it'll definitely please the patriot in you to hear about NS Men in combat and kicking ass! Not too bad for a first try for a local writing war fiction.

If you got cash to spare, support a fellow Singaporean.

aerozapper SG

Cadet! Wake up your idea.
Don't look down on yourself. It's a valid suggestion if you're game for it.

Afterall, anything's possible. Tom Clancy was an insurance broker who had never served any time in any armed service. At the time he wrote his first book "The Hunt for Red October", I don't think he'd even set foot on a Naval warship. The only things he knew were from books he read as a hobby.

LazerLordz SG

Read up on the SAF and its terminology and the stuf NSFs do for a living, using those found on public domain only.Ask your friends about their experiences and build a story around them.You can do it.!

TVaddict SG

i’ve read KO Island, The Missing Page and Crisis in the Straits and really enjoyed them even though they r fictional… but not impossible scenarios…

Moxie SG

Reference my last post :-

"NS An Air Level Story" by C.S. Chong, Times Editions, 1994.

ray243 SG

i once read a fanfiction of RA2 saying that the japanese army, whose communites, attacked singapore and malaysia fall in a few weeks time any singapore still want to fight in their own homeland…

ah_kwang SG

hey! you can do it. You don't really need a lot of knowledge of our military equipment and such as you can always dicredit whatever you write at the end of it. Anyway, I believe a lot of technologies are supposed to be classified info. Some authors scribble nonsense or rumours they heard. In some novels, their technology sounded futuristic but it actually exist in real life. Or maybe just make use of whiat you know of our SAF if you do not intend to go overboard (e.g SAR 21, F16C/D, F5T, LaFayatte Frigate, Apaches... ). Have anyone of you read Dan Brown's Deception Point. It made use of US's NRO(National Reconnaisance Office), Delta Force and NASA. Brown described everything inside NRO and it's technology in a very concise manner. How could he have did it if NRO is a restricted place while the agents in there are told to keep their mouths shut.

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

http://sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=51140

Some "localized" attempts at writing about war between totally fiticious nations!

Moonstriker SG

if u wan war novels involving singapore.. hmm...
Tom Clancy - Sea Of Fire....
read it 4 times already... pretty cool and gives descriptions abt the singapore govt & navy.

ray243 SG

what the story about?