Tour of duty
Subtitle: stories and provocations
By: Michael Z. Williamson
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781476736761
Subjects: American Science fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: It's a tough universe out there. A hard-hitting collection of the best fiction of Michael Z. Williamson, creator of the popular Freehold military SF saga, along with a helping of truth-telling nonfiction by a guy who has been there and done that, both at home and abroad. Duty in the face of danger on a planetary scale. Pride and competence in the face of idiotic clients who hate that that they need your services, and an enemy who wants to make your bad day even worse. These are stories of the warriors and civilians who get things done in extreme situations, whether it's rescue from a ship broken in space and leaking air and radiation, hard choices by a brigade of mercenary swords in a world of blood and magic, or scramble and response by troops in the Sandbox doing what it takes to make it through another scorching, rocket-filled day.
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.