Great story. I've been reading the collected Hammer's Slammers stories and I reread this one not long ago.
I've been reading Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence and it's a mindblower. You have to love a series about a race that has existed as long as the universe and has been in a shooting war with an enemy just as old and unknowable. Xeeleeverse humanity would trounce the vast majority of fictional super empires but they are less than gnats to the Xeelee and the Photino Birds. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "votomguy" <votom...@...> wrote: > > Well it wasn't a novel, but a short story written in 1989. David Drake's At > Any Price. It takes place in the Hammer's Slammers Universe on a > predominiately African World where Islamic fundamentalists have taken over > and are killing "black" Islamic followers who don't convert to becoming Arab > Muslims. In lieu of the Darfar situation, it definitely hit you like a punch > in the gut, but in a good way as it was thought provoking. > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravenadal@> wrote: > > > > The question about Asimov's "Foundation" septology leads me to ask what was > > the last SF novel you read that made you go "WOW!" And, by that, I mean > > the last novel that made your head spin around. For me it was William > > Gibson's "Neuromancer" and that was published in 1984, twenty-five years > > ago! > > > > By-the-by, I am only interested in novel novels - do not summit graphic > > novels. > > > > Thanks, > > > > ~rave! > > >
