Counter Attack (The Fleet, Book 2) [Paperback]

David Drake (Author), Bill Fawcett (Author)

Book Description

Series: Fleet | Publication Date: December 1, 1988

The shared-world military science fiction anthology series continues-with stories by:

Christopher Stasheff € Jody Lynn Nye € Judith R. Conly € Janny Wurts € Robert Sheckley € Shariann Lewitt € Piers Anthony € Mike Resnick € Bill Fawcett € Janet Morris € Chelsea Quinn Yarbro € David Drake

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace (December 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441240879
• ISBN-13: 978-0441240876
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,561,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn't run fast enough to get away.

Dave returned to become Chapel Hill's Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.

Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader's hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer's Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.

Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Flotilla, June 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Fleet 02: Counterattack (Paperback)

In the tradition of Thieves' World, The Fleet: Counter Attack assembles a collection of stories from some of sci-fi's top names, each revolving around a shared universe featuring Us Against Them. The bulk of the stories are classic military sci-fi, with soldiers taking on vicious aliens. Very good stuff, and each story is well-written. As shared universe anthologies go, this one ranks up there with the best Thieves' World collection.

The only let-down comes from Piers Anthony. His story "Soft Like a Woman" is well-done, with just the right amount of action and dramatic tension. However, Anthony reveals his on-going obsession with perceived chauvinism. His main character is insulted, degraded, and ignored because she is a woman, and she complains that her gender is keeping her from being taken seriously in the Fleet. The only problem is that several other stories in the book featured women in prominent, "masculine" roles: combat platoon leader (Christopher Stasheff), pilot (Janny Wurts), commander (Jody Lynn Nye), to name just a few. Anthony's political tirade mars an otherwise excellent story.