Tour of duty
Subtitle: stories and provocations
By: Michael Z. Williamson
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781451639056
Subjects: Undercover operations; Mercenary troops; Short stories; Fiction
Description: A collection of stories about soldiers and civilians doing their duty, some in a futuristic context, is accompanied by essays proclaiming the author's political and social views.
Notes: "A Baen Book"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Tour of duty: Stories. The humans call it duty; title: Time in the freehold universe; title: The brute force approach; title: The price; title: Desert blues; title: One night in Baghdad; title: Port Call; title: Naught but duty; title: The sword dancer; title: Wounded bird; title: The groom's price (with Gail Sanders); title: The bride's task (with Gail Sanders); title: Heads you lose; title: A hard day at the office; title: Misfits (with Gail Sanders). Tour of duty: Provocations. April Fool; title: Crazy Einar; title: So you are going to be raided by ViKings; title: Random maunderings about the Celtic peoples; title: The manly way to cook meat; title: The ten manliest firearms; title: Ten more manly firearms; title: The Mosin Nagant; title: On reparations generally, for the descendants of the long departed; title: My true encounters with the Indianapolis Police Department; title: Inappropriate cocktails.