Fiction that links environment to naval development

Are there good works of fiction about naval or military development on planets with different physical conditions?

Yes; the panel highlights stories where geography, atmosphere, chemistry, and missing materials produce genuinely different technological and military paths.

The recommendations focus less on titles than on useful worldbuilding mechanisms. A land-heavy planet with shallow inland seas and no rubber develops transport, naval forces, and technology along unfamiliar lines; a high-pressure Jovian civilization treats oxygen as poison and struggles to imagine vessels for vacuum. Fresh-water oceans offer another way to rethink corrosion and biology. Together the examples show that convincing alternate military development should follow material constraints rather than merely renaming familiar equipment.