Armor
by:
John Steakley (author)
Tom Weiner (author)
Format: audiobook
ASIN: 9780285
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 432
A military action book with heart and compassion. Who would've thunk! Initially, it seemed like one of those SF ideas that goes thus:Young boy with nothing to do observes an anthill. Puts a stick through one of the small holes and lo and behold ants stream out. Pokes more holes and soon has the w...
A military action book with heart and compassion. Who would've thunk! Initially, it seemed like one of those SF ideas that goes thus:Young boy with nothing to do observes an anthill. Puts a stick through one of the small holes and lo and behold ants stream out. Pokes more holes and soon has the w...
When this book sticks to what the cover promises -- armored troopers fighting giant ants -- "Armor" is pretty good military sci-fi. But I sense that Steakley was going for something a little deeper in this homage to Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," and in that, I believe he fell short. There are some...