6/3/2023 0 Comments Armour john steakleyIt isn’t the normal kind of idea driven SF that I so love – instead its ideas flow more through the emotions, eliciting our sympathies. At first I thought it was about the psychological effects of violence and the various kinds of heroism that can exist within a person. But, instead of being a novel of politics and leadership it is a very different kind of story. It makes use of both powered exoskeletons and insect-like alien enemies. And he is protected not only by his custom-fitted body armor, the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft, but also by an odd being which seems to live with him, a cold killing machine he calls “the Engine.” This best-selling science-fiction classic is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.Īrmor is a novel that was clearly inspired by Robert A. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. Themes: / Science Fiction / Military SF / War / Leadership / Drugs / Psychology /
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