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Armor (Daw science fiction) |  | Author: John Steakley
Publisher: DAW
Category: Book
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Rating:  355 reviews
Sales Rank: 31318
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 432
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0886773687
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780886773687
ASIN: 0886773687
Publication Date: December 4, 1984
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Product Description
Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the home of the most implacable of humanity's enemies. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic-powered battle fortress, but he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters.
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 One dimensional September 3, 2010
S. J. Huse (Rehoboth, DE USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This first novel is an entirely one dimensional story. For the first 89 pages the hero battles thousands of hard shelled space aliens - mostly by tearing them apart with his atomic powered armor. He is the only survivor in his 2,000 person unit.
You get the picture. After a while you figure out that the heor will never get killed. So there is little suspense left.
I read the next 40 pages but couldn't go on.
It would have been much better as an illustrated novel
 Starship Troopers in drag July 17, 2010
Barry Holsinger
If you've read Starship Troopers - Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel of interplanetary war - you'll doubtlessly agree that Paul Verhoeven's eponymous 1997 movie starring Caspen Van Dien is only loosely based on the original novel. The Hollywood blockbuster does borrow key plot points from the book, but adds large elements of scary alien monster movie schlock to excite the popcorn crowd. Now behold Armor, the "bestselling military classic" by John Steakley. If Verhoeven didn't give Steakley credit for inspiring the man-versus-monster battle scenes, he certainly should have; for Armor was published in 1984, a decade before Troopers made the leap to the big screen. Reading Armor, I couldn't stop thinking about Van Diem and company zapping and getting munched by nasty insectivore meanies on an inhospitable world, while cruel, clueless military leaders play chess with the soldiers' lives, a million miles away, safe in their enclaves and battleship bridges. It is this nightmare vision of a futuristic foot soldier's bleak existence which envelopes the reader of Armor. Steakley cleverly weaves his narrative of galactic guts-and-glory into Heinlein's original military milieu without explicitly saying so - but you know it's the same universe, just darker, bloodier. It's really unfortunate then, that Steakley's attempt - to go beyond the genre and create a multi-layered character study - falls so furiously flat half way through, that the reader is tempted to take scissors and excise the middle third of the book, and give the other two-thirds the benefit of a doubt, placing this remainder back on the bookshelf, perhaps a little to the left of, and maybe a shelf or two below, Heinlein's brilliant masterpiece. Seriously, Daw Books' editorial drones need a slap across the collective naked eyeball with a wet noodle. The missing punctuation marks, spelling errors, and ninth-grade writing style give Armor a really amateurish aftertaste. Where are all the missing periods? Are the printing plates worn down, or is it that nobody has ever actually proofread the book after 30-plus printings?
 On My Top 10 Greatest Sci-Fi Books List June 12, 2010
Trevor Lowing (Satellite Beach, FL United States)
Felix is a grunt. Felix has a knack for fighting bugs. And surviving. Before his adventure is over he will be forced to question the nature of free will and destiny. In his despair he will inspire others to do the same.
Steakley is a bit of an enigmatic writer. He hasn't written much but what he has written is awesome. This book game me the chills. Heck, I've read it twice now and I never reread books.
Classic May 15, 2010
Peter (Lagrangeville, NY United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read it.
Nearly Perfect April 25, 2010
EAJ (Troy, MI)
Great combat scenes. Great inside your head on Felix. 1/3 the way in the book moves forward to an entirely different character Jack Crow and you are going like what the hell. You wonder if on is the other or not. You learn more about what happened in the end of the first 1/3 and then in the last 5% of the book all the loose ends are tied up.
I really loved the first 1/3, the 2nd 3rd with Jack Crow was good once they started doing the "research" into that suit. The Last third fills in the blanks in unexpected ways and the last little bit ties it all up. The ending was a bit of a let down given the hype of prior reviews but the book was so good overall and the reveals & way of telling the story was so well handled I love it overall.
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