Re: Armor

On Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 7:19:23 PM, tmcarth@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tom
McCarthy) 
wrote:

> I'd never even heard of Armor (John Steakley, IIRC) but it showed up
in 
> my bookstore with a cover boasting "The Classic, back in print" and
the 
> cover was the kind of picture that should have been on Starship
Troopers 
> or The Forever War or StarGrunt II. 

_Armor_ has not appeared in all bookstore this time around.  I saw it in

Boston back in April, but I don't think I have seen it down here yet.

The first edition showed a guy in power armor about to club a giant
ant-thing 
over the head with his rifle.  [This is vaguely reminiscent of a scene
in the 
book where they run out of ammo and have to go hand-to-hand.]  IIRC, the

caption read "What price impregnable armor vs. implacable foe?"

A very fine read.

Note that the other Steakley book that was mentioned, _Vampire$_, also
stars 
the same two characters from _Armor_,  Felix and Jack Crow.  The
publishing 
info page has a cryptic reference to the duplication of characters.

-- Chris Weuve	 [My opinions, not my employer's.]
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