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Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armour designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy - a bio-engineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him and his fellow soldiers to survive battle situations that would normally destroy a man's mind. This…
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The first half of this book is top-tier, straight-up, future-guy-in-power-armor-mashes-his-way-through-an-endless-bug-army sci-fi. And it’s awesome! I love it! But the second half goes somewhere you wouldn’t expect at all about how someone who survived the unsurvivable might retire (and maybe get the itch to put the armor back on for a nobler cause).
That second half feels a bit jarring at first, given the narrative simplicity of the first half, but it works. And builds to the sequel that, sadly, we’ll never get, as Steakley died before he finished it. I also love this book because Steakley was from Dallas, and…
From Victor's list on war never changes except when it does.
While a lot of people look to Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers as the first book to tackle powered battle armor, and soldiers using them to fight aliens, Armor made a far greater impression on me and had me coming back to it again and again.
Felix is a volunteer in a war against the aliens nicknamed “ants,” and while he can’t stand the carnage and senseless loss of life, he’s also very, very good at combat. The first quarter of the book is like the Normandy invasion set on another planet, with amazing battles and acts of, if not courage,…
From Wayne's list on science fiction and fantasy books with a ton of action.
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