Foreign Legions
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743435605 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Van Name's "A Clear Signal" distinguishes itself by its focus on the ethical issues created for humans by access to the aliens' high technology and for aliens by access to a supply of desperate human beings. Neither the basic proposition nor most of the development in individual stories will win high marks for originality, but military-historical scholarship and narrative techniques are another matter, as one might expect from the roster of authors. In addition, one learns a good deal about the background of the Roman guilds and federation and how a "benign" federation might look from the point of view of its illegal immigrants doing its dirty work. Cop
M. Stirling, and Mark L. A collection of novellas by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction writers--including David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint, S. Van Name--chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.
Melvin E. Clark said Foreign Legions. One of rare works of science fiction that just could not hold my interest. I never finished it.. Drops you into battle and plays you out with music One of David Drake's earliest stories (and one of his best known), is "Ranks of Bronze", which leads off this volume of tales. "Ranks" dealt with a short, ugly campaign by a group of bought-and-paid-for Roman Legionnaires, the survivors of Crassus' utterly disastrous Parthian campaign. To the aliens, the primitive humans are useful puppets who can be used to conquer other primitive worlds. But THESE puppets have swords, which can cut strings and their masters' throats.The stories in this volume range from non-stories like. Enjoyable set of stories by several authors overall this was an enjoyable read. comments on individual stories/authors followranks of bronze (short story version) - you can see why this was so intriguing drake was pushed for a novelization.sir george and the dragon - it seemed a bit dull, probably because in great part it is a re-run of the original novel with another set of humans.lambs to the slaughter - dry drake story, he didn't show any occupation-force/pacification activity in original story, wonder if this is an afterthought.a clear signal - interesting conc