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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Naked to the Stars
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Naked to the Stars by Gordon Dickson is a soldier story taking place in 
an eternal war for Human expansion.  It seems much more of an anti-war
story and certainly more bitter about war than the Dorsai books.

Reading the first few chapters I assumed from the nature of the war and
the basic attitude that this book had come out of the Vietnam conflict,
but no.  It's copyrighted 1961, making it far ahead of its time and 
presaging work by folks like Joe Haldeman.

When I realized this I started noticing that all of the tactics in this
war were all European WWII tactics... there was no airmobile technology
of any sort.  The terrain was much like that of the European war too.

I got a copy that was discarded by the NESFA library when they got a less
damaged one.  Recommended.  
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."