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War and Space: Recent Combat Paperback – 8 May 2012

by Nancy Kress (Author), Paul McAuley (Author), Sandra McDonald (Author),
3.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
Conflict: a basic human instinct, helping humankind evolve even while threatening the very existence of the species . . . an instinct that will be as much a part of the future as it is now and always has been.
For all the glories of war-the defeat of evil, the promise of freedom, justice, protection of the innocent, the righting of wrongs, technological innovation, heroism-there are also the horrors:
individual grief, mass destruction, the elimination of entire cultures and great achievments, injustice, villainy, the annihilation of the innocent, and pain beyond bearing. War and Space offers the ultimate speculation on the future of warfare-stories of insectoid anguish, genetically-engineered diplomats who cannot fail, aliens plundering humanity, a weaponized black hole-scenarios of triumph and defeat, great heroism and vile depravity . . . and more.
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  1. Print length
    384 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Prime Books
  4. Publication date
    8 May 2012
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1607013371
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1607013372
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prime Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 8 May 2012
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1607013371
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607013372
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 426 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    3.6 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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  1. Sandra McDonald

    Sandra McDonald

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    Lieutenant Sandra McDonald spent 8 years in the U.S. Navy tracking submarines, coordinating family services, and managing the barracks for more than 2,000 sailors (many of them away from home for the first time). After the military she worked in Hollywood (freeways, smog, and celebrities), assisted retired veterans, and taught college writing.

    She writes military romance, speculative fiction, YA, and sometimes a little horror, too. Her first book of short fiction, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, won a Lambda Literary award for transgender fiction. It is a Booklist Editor's Choice and American Library Association Over the Rainbow book.

    Her short stories have appeared in magazines around the world and been including in several Year's Best and award-winning collections. Four of her stories have been noted by the James A. Tiptree Jr. Award honor list for excellence in gender and identity.

    Her novels include

    - The Outback Stars (Science Fiction Book of the Month Club pick) series

    - Mystery of the Tempest (Silver Moonbeam Award) and its sequels (as author Sam Cameron)

    - The gay-asexual thriller City of Soldiers (as author Sam Burke)

    - The science fiction romance Boomerang World

    Website: www.sandramcdonald.com

    Twitter: @twitter.com

    Also on Wattpad, Pinterest, and Facebook

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  2. Genevieve Valentine

    Genevieve Valentine

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    Genevieve Valentine's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy Magazine, and Apex, and in the anthologies Federations, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, Teeth, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine.

    Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, is forthcoming from Prime Books.

    Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog at genevievevalentine.com. She is currently working on a formula to evaluate the awfulness of any given film, a scale that will be measured in Julians to honor Julian Sands, who has bravely uttered some of the worst lines ever filmed,in some of the worst wigs ever made.

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  • JPS
    4.0 out of 5 stars Original and mostly good collection of short-stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2013
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    This is a collection of some twenty short stories around the themes of war and space. What makes them original is the way these themes are treated, even though most of the stories may have been published in various specialized magazines. The point here, as other reviewers on Amazon.com have mentioned, is that these stories are not about battles, fighting and heroics. There is very little of these in the stories so that the book's subtitle ("Recent Combat") is somewhat misleading.

    What you get instead is a collection of views about how humans and non-humans alike adapt (or try to adapt) to the various circumstances of war. Some of the stories are about preventing wars. They show to what extremes (including sacrifice, murder and sabotage) the characters can go in order to ensure that it does not happen. Several are about revenge, power plays or the economic causes, such as enforcing a monopoly, which provoked the outbreak of war.

    Most, however, are about the incomprehension and the consequences, in particular the various and wide range of traumas, mutilations and losses brought by war. Unsurprisingly in a collection of twenty, you will have preferences and you will like some of the stories more than others. Some of them are quite emotional and/or moving. Most of them are rather grim. A number of stories unsurprisingly bear the traces of - or are somewhat inspired by - the recent conflicts in Irak and Afghanistan and the "war on terror".

    Four stars.
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  • robert
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good collection
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2019
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    Some really nice pieces amongst it
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  • M. M. Linder Jr.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Solid and sometimes haunting collection
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 November 2012
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    The reader looking for straight up "military sci-fi" writing will probably walk away from this book disappointed. However, to do so is to miss the point of the collection entirely, and there are nearly endless options out there for the reader who wants to read Jerry Pournelle or David Drake clones. (I myself enjoy those authors and their colleagues.)

    Rather, this collection has been put together to collect mostly unusual or non-standard sci-fi war stories that focus primarily on the "human" (or non-human as the case may be) element rather than out-and-out combat narration. Indeed, very little actual combat appears in these pages. Instead, the editors present you with thoughtful, sometimes profound, and memorable stories dealing with such diverse themes as the emotional effect on a soldier of the ability of both him (and others in his life) to be reincarnated after each "death," how secret recruiting of human soldiers for an alien war (which may not even be a war as we understand it) might work, how advanced interdimensional warfare could become a self-sustaining enterprise, and so forth.

    Some stories are more engaging than others, but there is not a clunker in the group and the collection is a welcome respite from standard interstellar war narratives.
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  • G. Budrikis
    3.0 out of 5 stars An OK set of SF short stories
    Reviewed in the United States on 11 December 2013
    Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
    A mixed bag really. I basically bought the book because it had Nancy Kress' name on the cover and her story did not disappoint. Some of the others were good. Others were basically parallel universe stories, which for mine is a bit lazy. Still others seemed to be all about alien exotic sex, which I found stupefyingly boring.
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  • Rich
    3.0 out of 5 stars sy fy shorts
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 March 2014
    Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
    I enjoy the "short" story as it requires the author to get to the point and develop the storyline. Short stories allow one to peruse different styles and then go to the author for more in depth stories.
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