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OCLC. 51644674. Armor is a military science fiction novel by John Steakley. It features the military use of exoskeletons and insect-like alien enemies but concentrates on the psychological effects of violence on human beings. It was first published in December 1984 .
Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction and military fiction that depicts the use of science fiction technology, including spaceships and weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization, usually during a war; occurring sometimes in outer space or on a different planet or planets.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars. Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. The Beast Master by Andre Norton. Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore.
Hyperion. The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in the series, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, [1] [2] and later came to refer to the overall storyline, including Endymion, The Rise of Endymion, and a number of short stories.
The 2006 children's novel The Doomsday Dust (book 4 in the Spy Gear Adventures series by Rick Barba) features a nanite swarm as the villain. A nanomorph, a term first coined by science fiction writer David Pulver in 1986's GURPS Robots, is a fictional robot entirely made of nanomachines. Its brain is distributed throughout its whole body, which ...
The novel features scenes and events, including the discovery of a nearly-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, "I'm sorry, but there is bad news," and the alien's subsequent interrogation and autopsy; the discovery of an artificial geological formation and its subsequent nuclear destruction by a desperate military; and the Earth's eventual destruction by the mutual ...
L. The Last of the Immortals. Legacy Trilogy. Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Legion of the Damned (novel) List of BattleTech novels. A Long Time Until Now. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. The Lost Fleet.
Slan. Slan is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, as well as the name of the fictional race of superbeings featured in the novel. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (September–December 1940). It was subsequently published in hardcover in 1946 by Arkham House, in an ...