Passage at Arms
Author: Glen Cook
Publisher: Night Shade Books
ISBN-13: 9781597801195
ISBN: 1597801194
Rating: 9/10

Think military sci-fi, and names like Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman and David Drake come to mind. Then there’s Glen Cook. Writing during a time when military sci-fi was just getting off the ground (thanks to the Viet Nam War and movies like Star Wars), the author of Starfishers and the Black Company series managed to do what was thought impossible at the time-take the entertainment out of militainment. Not only were his characters gritty, grimy, and grouchy, life in Cook’s interstellar battlefields were hardly something worth writing home about. Read More→