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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Naked to the Stars
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:02:43 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vrgvfk$5cm$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>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.  

As I recall, it was Dickson's reply to Starship Troopers. 
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