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# 29 Tanya Huff, Valor's Choice (2000)
Tanya Huff, Valor's Choice (2000)
I enjoy military SF, though only when it manages to not descend into neo-colonialism with completely inhuman and unlikeable aliens. I like this book particularly, because the narrator, Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, views the enemy as 'hormonally hopped up males'.
The plot is based loosely on the 1879 battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu wars. Which is to say, there's a small group of soldiers with superior weaponry fighting defensively against a large number of poorly armed aggressors.
I note that I am cruising through this challenge, largely because I just get to reread enjoyable Tanya Huff light reading.
I enjoy military SF, though only when it manages to not descend into neo-colonialism with completely inhuman and unlikeable aliens. I like this book particularly, because the narrator, Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, views the enemy as 'hormonally hopped up males'.
The plot is based loosely on the 1879 battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu wars. Which is to say, there's a small group of soldiers with superior weaponry fighting defensively against a large number of poorly armed aggressors.
I note that I am cruising through this challenge, largely because I just get to reread enjoyable Tanya Huff light reading.