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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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JPSAvis laissé au Royaume-Uni le 4 août 2013
Original and mostly good collection of short-stories
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M. M. Linder Jr.Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 27 novembre 2012
Solid and sometimes haunting collection
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G. BudrikisAvis laissé aux États-Unis le 11 décembre 2013
An OK set of SF short stories
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