- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Soundelux Audio Publishing; Abridged edition (January 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0971098840
- ISBN-13: 978-1559353557
- ASIN: 1559353554
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.7 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Will the next war be fought in cyberspace? Stephen Coonts, author of the watershed military novel, Flight of the Intruder, offers this collection of 11 21st-century novellas for fans of contemporary and near-future military fiction. Technology is the binding element of Combat, and fans of Tom Clancy's high-tech military espionage thrillers will find much to love, from ultra-smart weapons to the technical infrastructure of the armed forces of the future. Don't expect hard core science fiction; the villains are of the more realistic variety: terrorists, rogue governments, and outlaw technology. Some of these stories are encumbered with a level of detail only the serious enthusiast will enjoy. (Dale Brown's "Leadership Material" has whole passages describing regs and paperwork that will bore all but the most ardent fans of the genre.) Highlights include Harold W. Coyle's fast-paced "Cyberknights," the most likely candidate from this collection to become a big-budget feature film. --Brendan LaSalle
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Editor Coonts (Flight of the Intruder, etc.) has gathered an impressive group of techno-thriller authors for this testosterone-laden anthology. Ten original short novels by Dale Brown, Larry Bond, Harold Coyle, R.J. Pineiro, David Hagberg, Dean Ing and others, plus one by Coonts himself, feature aerial combat over the Gulf of Oman, a super-secret space cannon, nuclear brinkmanship and a bunch of retired pilots in a jet dogfight over California. Occasionally heavy on the technology and gore, these John-and-Jane-Wayne-meet-Star-Wars tales offer a chilling glimpse into warfare in the 21st century. The most successful focus not on weird military technology, but on the men and women who must actually fight. Coonts's own story, "Al Jihad," pits a retired Marine sniper and a mysterious female pilot against terrorists in the Sahara Desert with a delightful final plot twist. James Cobb's "Cav" suggests that even in the year 2035, modern warfare will still rely on the courage and resourcefulness of the ordinary infantryman. In "There Is No War in Melnica," Ralph Peters offers a frightening and gruesome look at the ethnic slaughter in Kosovo as seen through the horrified eyes of a kidnapped U.S. Army officer. Best of all is Ing's tightly wrapped tale, "Inside Job," which is a masterful detective mystery with a private eye, a bounty hunter and an FBI agent all investigating a peculiar cargo ship and a missing sailor in San Francisco. (Jan. 2)Forecast: Anthologies of original novellas have a checkered sales record, but if the publisher emphasizes the superstar lineup and properly targets the book to the pro-military crowd, the book should engage bestseller lists, particularly down the road in paperback.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Brillant Collection,
By Chris O'Connor (Pensacola, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Combat (Hardcover)
This book is a great collection of short novels that illustrate the wars of the future against terrorists, in cyberspace, and in orbit. The stories are to the point, action pacted, and sadly, were not made into full novels themselves. If you are sick of Clancy and other authors that are too busy discussing politics to write a good novel, than this book is for you. All of the futuristic stories are excellent, and will introduce you to the best in the business (if you don't know them already).
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Cyberwar,
By A Customer
This review is from: Combat (Hardcover)
The brief novella, Cyberknights, by Harold W Coyle provides a no nonsense look at the processing of an attack against an imagined enemy. To believe that immunity exists in cyberspace is to be delusional. Mr. Coyle removes this misconception. There is not one item mentioned that is not acheivable today. I was reassured by the use of the T1 facilities dedicated to the attack. I was impressed by the total lack of canonization of the criminal element that maintains they should have free reign in cyberspace. Thanks for a good read.
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Combat is a great concept with great authors,
By W E Thompson (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Combat (Hardcover)
Coonts, Brown, Coyle, Hagberg have long been favorites of mine. In Combat I got the chance to visit each of them and to gain some new favorites as well. If a full novel by any of these authors is a complex seven course meal with the 'right' wine, the concept of this smorgasbord with its varied tastes is a delight to the mind as the buffet is to the palate.I would never want these authors to abandon their full-flavored works with complex plots and characters. However, the approach of Combat i.e., giving us a taste of each with a straight-forward, unity story line is a REAL treat. I hope that these fine authors enjoyed the exercise in writing and mixing these novellas. Beyond the creative process, they each added to their fans club introducing themselves to the admirers of the others. Let's hope there are more anthologies of this kind in the future. The NEAR future. GOOD JOB, GUYS. Put me down for release date delivery of any redux of the concept.
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