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War and Space: Recent Combat Tapa blanda – 8 mayo 2012
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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.
- Longitud de impresión384 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialPrime Books
- Fecha de publicación8 mayo 2012
- Dimensiones15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101607013371
- ISBN-13978-1607013372
Detalles del producto
- Editorial : Prime Books
- Fecha de publicación : 8 mayo 2012
- Idioma : Inglés
- Longitud de impresión : 384 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 1607013371
- ISBN-13 : 978-1607013372
- Peso del producto : 426 g
- Dimensiones : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
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JPSReseñado en el Reino Unido el 4 de agosto de 2013
4,0 de 5 estrellas Original and mostly good collection of short-stories
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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M. M. Linder Jr.Reseñado en Estados Unidos el 27 de noviembre de 2012
4,0 de 5 estrellas Solid and sometimes haunting collection
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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robertReseñado en el Reino Unido el 27 de febrero de 2019
4,0 de 5 estrellas Good collection
Some really nice pieces amongst it
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G. BudrikisReseñado en Estados Unidos el 11 de diciembre de 2013
3,0 de 5 estrellas An OK set of SF short stories
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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RichReseñado en Estados Unidos el 18 de marzo de 2014
3,0 de 5 estrellas sy fy shorts
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.