Armored / edited by John Joseph Adams.
Material type: TextPublication details: Riverdale, NY : Baen ; New York, NY : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2012.Description: xix, 579 p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 1451638175 (pbk.)
- 9781451638172 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Adams Joh | Available | 33111006713594 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure, and amazingspeculation by top-notch writers, including Nebula-award winner JackMcDevitt , Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell, on afuture warrior that might very well be just around the corner. It's anarmor-plated clip of hard-hitting tales featuring exoskeleton adventure withfascinating takes on possible future armors ranging from the style of personalpower suits seen in Starship Troopers and Halo to theservo-controlled, bipedal, beast-mech style encountered in Mechwarrior and Battletech .
"A Baen Books original"--T.p. verso.
"Part human. Part machine. All soldier"--Cover.
Anthology.
Foreword / by Orson Scott Card -- Introduction / by John Joseph Adams -- The Johnson maneuver / by Ian Douglas -- Hel's half-acre / by Jack Campbell -- Jungle walkers / by David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell -- The last run of the Coppelia / by Genevieve Valentine -- Death reported of the last surviving veteran of great war / by Dan Abnett -- The cat's pajamas / by Jack McDevitt -- Find heaven and hell in the smallest things / by Simon R. Green -- Power armor : a love story / by David Barr Kirtley -- The last days of the Kelly Gang / by David D. Levine -- Field test / by Michael A. Stackpole -- Trauma pod / by Alastair Reynolds -- Contained vacuum / by David Sherman -- You do what you do / by Tanya Huff -- Nomad / by Karin Lowachee -- Human error / by John Jackson Miller -- Transfer of ownership / by Christie Yant -- Heuristic algorithm and reasoning response engine / by Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson -- Don Quixote / by Carrie Vaughn -- The poacher / by Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner -- The Green / by Lauren Beukes -- Sticks and stones / by Robert Buettner -- Helmet / by Daniel H. Wilson -- The N-body solution / by Sean Williams.
Featuring stories from Jack Campbell, Tanya Huff and Alastair Reynolds, this collection imagines the power of armored warriors as they battle at the bottom of the sea, on nightmarish alien worlds and in the darkest depths of space.