What do you think?
Rate this book
Mercenary
First published Summer 1998 in Absolute Magnitude, this short story was one of the bonus rewards in an eSpec books Kickstarter for the Defending the Future Anthology: Man and Machine.
The author writes the following description on his website: MERCENARY is an attempt to write a story in which a mercenary soldier is continually recreated anew, with no memories of his previous reincarnations save those of his immediate past. I hope that the readers are able to keep that firmly in mind and not get too confused.
The author writes the following description on his website: MERCENARY is an attempt to write a story in which a mercenary soldier is continually recreated anew, with no memories of his previous reincarnations save those of his immediate past. I hope that the readers are able to keep that firmly in mind and not get too confused.
15 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 1998
About the author
Bud Sparhawk
75 books16 followersBud Sparhawk is the author of the novels Distant Seas, Dreams of Earth, Shattered Dreams, Magician, and Vixen, as well as two print collections: Sam Boone: Front to Back, and Dancing with Dragons. He has three e-Novels available through Amazon and other channels.
Bud has been a three-time novella finalist for the Nebula award: Primrose and Thorn (Analog, May 1996), Magic’s Price (Analog, March 2001), and Clay’s Pride (Analog, July/August 2004). His work has appeared in two Year’s Best anthologies: Year’s Best SF #11 (EOS), David Harwell-Editor) and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourteenth Annual Collection, (St Martins Press, Garner Dozois – Editor.)
His short stories have appeared frequently in Analog Fact/Fiction, less so in Asimov’s, as well as in five Defending the Future and other anthologies, publications and audio books. He has put out several collections of some of his published works in ebook format. A complete bibliography can be found at: http://budsparhawk.com.
He also writes an occasional blog on the pain of writing at http://budsparhawk.blogspot.com.
Bud has been a three-time novella finalist for the Nebula award: Primrose and Thorn (Analog, May 1996), Magic’s Price (Analog, March 2001), and Clay’s Pride (Analog, July/August 2004). His work has appeared in two Year’s Best anthologies: Year’s Best SF #11 (EOS), David Harwell-Editor) and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourteenth Annual Collection, (St Martins Press, Garner Dozois – Editor.)
His short stories have appeared frequently in Analog Fact/Fiction, less so in Asimov’s, as well as in five Defending the Future and other anthologies, publications and audio books. He has put out several collections of some of his published works in ebook format. A complete bibliography can be found at: http://budsparhawk.com.
He also writes an occasional blog on the pain of writing at http://budsparhawk.blogspot.com.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
September 26, 2016
Received this short story as a kickstarter reward. A nice military sci-fi short story following copies of a tape made of a grunt. His people made it because they did not need all the military people at the moment, but might in the future. As the future got further and further away from the recording, the tape became trade goods for other species who needed grunt warriors.
A pleasant sci-fi story which when it was originally published in 1998 would of made my head spin with questioning the morality, but now in 2016 it is just okay.
A pleasant sci-fi story which when it was originally published in 1998 would of made my head spin with questioning the morality, but now in 2016 it is just okay.
Displaying 1 of 1 review