Friday, November 16, 2018

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Bloch stepped into the waist-high transformer pit and wrestled the gun onto its bipod in firing position.  Santini simply pushed the ammo dolly in ahead of himself.  The cannisters were padded against shock, but a direct hit from a laser might penetrate.  The best result the crew could hope for then was a low-order explosion that might not kill them.  If the bead of deuterium at the heart of each cartridge detonated, hard suits weren’t going to make any difference to the resulting thermonuclear explosion.


    (from Redliners by David Drake)

    5*/10.  The complete review is here.
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