At LibertyCon, we announced one of the titles for our anthology drive in 2025. Yes, we intend to continue to publishing two anthologies a month next year! If you watched our Raconteur Press panel video, you can see Mike pitch Pogue One to the attendees. There are probably questions surrounding this, so we hope this provides some answers.
Space Marines: humanity’s finest, the very name of soldierly comportment in intergalactic conflict. Everywhere in human space, grunts in power armor get all the glory. Even in conventional armed forces, however, only 15% or so of those are grunts.
We want stories about the other 85%. What are their adventures? The truck drivers, the bulk fuelers, supply sergeants, pay clerks, airframe mechanics, the guy who fixed the soft-serve ice cream machine on Seti-Alpha-Five (God bless that guy). Welcome to Pogue One.
To be clear, this anthology is not an indictment of pogues. There are plenty of examples of non-combat arms types getting into the thick of the action.
What will that look like as humanity traverses the galactic frontier?
What are the relationships between space logisticians and their space grunt counterparts? How does one administratively separate one hundred light-years from home? Heaven help us, does the Consolidated Issue Facility still exist centuries from now?
The story can be about any Military Occupational Specialty except infantry. Artillery, tanks, even those dirty air wingers are allowed. So sharpen your pencils and get to writing!
Official submission dates will be announced in the near future. Stand by for action!
Pogue One: Even Space Marines Have Pay Issues
Very interesting.
Oh. I could probably do this.