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The Spoils of War Kindle Edition
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This award winning short story originally appeared in the Age of Wonders anthology.
"The Spoils of War," by Christopher Holliday, is a hard-hitting tale of the future of war, where some things haven't changed since Caesar, and yet nothing is the same at all. -- David Brin, Hugo Award winning author. ( Forward from Age of Wonders).
"High impact character-driven military science fiction reminiscent of John Steakley's Armor" -- Marketlist SF Reviews
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 6, 2015
- File size2037 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B016AX0TR4
- Publication date : October 6, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 2037 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 13 pages
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Christopher Holliday was abducted from his home in Southern California at a young age and raised by wolves in small town New England. He spent the better part of high school writing stories in spiral notebooks, finished his first two novels shortly after graduation, and wisely shelved them.
An award winning author, he writes character driven stories with genre wide ideas. His publishing credits include dozens of science fiction short stories in magazines and anthologies, as well as mainstream stories in college and literary presses.
Holliday is the creator of Marketlist.com, the first digital market resource for writers. He has been a script and screenplay editor and story consultant, while continuing to write genre short stories and two novels in progress.
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It moves quickly, even for a short story, from one scene to the next and the characters are filled in nicely giving you an idea about who they are, why they're doing what they're doing, and a bit of inner monologue. The scenes are described in detail but not in a wordy way, and there are plenty of places where you'll find yourself asking questions as the plot carries you along.
I think what I liked most is that the characters don't tell you everything. Like real people, there are things they keep to themselves, and things even they don't know until their lives unfold. Too many authors try to tell you everything right up front instead of allowing the story to unfold organically, again, like life.
Even my 15 year old wished it was a longer work when we read it as part of our literature lesson last month. He wanted to know more of the story... with the twists and surprises it delivers we all did.
This is an all around great short story. The prose is crisp and descriptive without ever being overblown and boring, the observations about combat read as though the author has "been there." The characterizations are spot on. There really isn't anything not to love about it. I'm going to go and buy his next one.
I look forward to the novels he says he is writing in the description.
Bonus points for making me look up the word "epicanthic". Recommended.