Has anyone else read this? I read it by chance about six years ago and loved it. Coincidentally, a year ago I read OSC's intro in Ender's Game and found that it was mentioned there in a fan letter.
If anybody has read it, what are some other works out there that have the same despair/burned out feel to them?
[This message has been edited by Noctivigant (edited September 01, 2005).]
Posted by SimonMRhees (Member # 2777) on :
It's been a few years since I read the book, but I remember loving it. Steakley also wrote Vampire$, but I didn't really like it that much. It had some potential, but I just didn't like it all that much. In the same, bleak future vein, are some of the cyberpunk classics, Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson. And 1984, by George Orwell. I like David Brin's The Postman, although it's in a completely different genre.
Posted by Gnomeinclaychair (Member # 2926) on :
Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers are books along the same vein (Armor is almost eerily similar to Troopers, though Troopers is older), and are very good books.
Troopers was written during the very beginning of the Vietnam War, if I remember right, and Haldeman's was written as it was ending. Armor was early eighties, wasn't it? VERY interesting differences in content and themes for three VERY similar books.