John Steakley
Birth date: January 01, 1951
Died: November 27, 2010
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This was different than expected in reading different reviews and posts about this book. It was good with a really fun ending but the book was very inconsistent throughout the novel and I found myself plowing through some sections that I was not enjoying but the author does bring everything into ali...
This was different than expected in reading different reviews and posts about this book. It was good with a really fun ending but the book was very inconsistent throughout the novel and I found myself plowing through some sections that I was not enjoying but the author does bring everything into ali...
Well I've been wondering what to say about Armor. Its a scifi novel its true, but its a novel that could have been just as easily set during Vietnam or World War II, or the American Civil War or any great and momentous conflict of our time or of history. Indeed other books have been written along th...
extended metaphor for western identity in a communities and relationship oriented world? or just good space opera? sci-fi classic armor . quite obviously vietnam war metaphor. (khe sanh and dien bien phu) but Steakley was in university during the war. ha! talk about confounded expectations.so, just...
Oh man, if only the whole book was a good as the last 100 pages, it would get 5 Stars not just 3. Alas, there are two or three great stories here, but none are fully fleshed out. The first story is about Felix, a survior of uncounted "drops" on Banshee, home of the enemy "Ants". Felix is the ultimat...
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