StarFist is a series of military science fiction novels set in the 25th century and written from the viewpoint of the men of the Confederation of Human Worlds Marine Corps 34th FIST (Fleet Initial Strike Team) and later in the spin-off series Starfist: Force Recon.
As of June 2010, the StarFist series comprises 14 novels written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg, with the recent addition of the novel, Double Jeopardy. An additional spinoff series by the same authors, entitled StarFist: Force Recon, was started in 2005 with the publication of Backshot.
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The authors of StarFist and StarFist: Force Recon are David Sherman and Dan Cragg.
Dan Cragg was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, serving for twenty-two years with eleven years in overseas stations, with five and half of them in Vietnam; at retirement Cragg was a Sergeant Major. He is also a writer of military non-fiction, including Inside the VC and NVA' and many others based around the Vietnam War. He lives in Virginia.
First to Fight, (1997)
34 FIST, Company L, Third Platoon
Platoon Leader: Staff Sargent Charlie Bass
Squad 1 Leader: Sargent Wang Hyakowa
Squad 1 Team 1:
Squad 1 Team 2 Fire Team: Lance Corporal Lupo "Rabbit" Ratliff
Squad 2 Leader: Eagle's Cry
Gun Squad: Corporal "Hound" Kelly
Joseph F. Dean
- Fred McNeal
- Charlie Bass
- PFC Chan
- Lupo "Rabbit" Ratliff
- PFC "New Guy" Claypoole
While the Starfist original series deals primarily with a particular Confederation Marine brigade, the 34th FIST (Fleet Initial Strike Team), Starfist: Force Recon describes the experiences of the men and women who carry out intelligence-gathering and small-unit raids behind enemy lines. The Confederation Marine Force Recon mission is very similar to that of United States Marine Force Recon, with which co-author Sherman, a former US Marine, is familiar.