Body Armor: 2000

Tomorrow's Warfare #1

by Joe Haldeman (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor)

In the future, war is still hell, and man retains one inescapable survival. As technology advances, he tools of battle - the strategies, the weaponry, the scope of destruction - also advance. Here are eleven riveting tales of the future's battlefields from the celebrated masters of science fiction.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

311 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1986

About the author

Brother of Jack C. Haldeman II

Haldeman is the author of 20 novels and five collections. The Forever War won the Nebula, Hugo and Ditmar Awards for best science fiction novel in 1975. Other notable titles include Camouflage, The Accidental Time Machine and Marsbound as well as the short works "Graves," "Tricentennial" and "The Hemingway Hoax." Starbound is scheduled for a January release. SFWA president Russell Davis called Haldeman "an extraordinarily talented writer, a respected teacher and mentor in our community, and a good friend."

Haldeman officially received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for 2010 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the Nebula Awards Weekend in May, 2010 in Hollywood, Fla.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty good military sf anthology with eleven stories centering on the theme of personal armor in combat. The "2000" in the title doesn't really fit, as I don't remember any of the stories being set that close to the book's publication in 1986. Perhaps the publisher just thought it looked like a cool science-fictiony year. (Little did they know.) It has an interesting introduction by Haldeman, as well as memorable stories by C.J. Cherryh, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, and Harry Harrison. I also quite liked David Drake's Contact!, though my favorite is Hero by Haldeman himself, which became the first section of his classic The Forever War.

[Alexandru · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of SF stories that are revolving around future warfare and the evils of wars. Some of them a interesting and some slightly bizarre. In any event they have one idea in common - war never changes and solves anything.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really related to anything.

[Lucy Batson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of power armor/military sc-fi short stories that fares better when it gets silly or weird, as it does with "The Warbots" by Larry S. Todd, and "Early Model" by Robert Sheckley.

[Timothy Gretler · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can't go wrong with an 80's sci-fi compilation of stories from the 50's, 60's and 70's!, I grew up on this stuff. I remember when these kind of books would be on a spinning rack near the cash registers. I miss those days. My favorite stories in this compilation are "The Scapegoat", "Hired Man", "In the Bone", "The Chemically Pure Warriors" and "Or Battle's Sound". Good stuff...