(Ian Miller’s cover for the 1990 edition)įrom the back cover: “SCHOLARS AND SOLDIERS is Mary Gentle’s first story collection including two original novellas set in the same universe as her new novel, Rats and Gargoyles. Scholars and Soldiers, Mary Gentle (1989)

If you’re interested in the TOMORROW of America-in learning about our dangerous vulnerability to attack, to panic and chaos–don’t miss this book. Then, suddenly, atomic destruction hurtled down out of the sky and America was threatened with annihilation… It is–until the savage strike of catastrophe-the story of the girl next door and her boy friend: of a man who saw what was coming and a woman who didn’t of reckless youngsters and tough hoods. Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed?įrom the back cover: “TOMORROW! is a powerful novel of average Americans at work, at play and in love in two neighboring cities. Let me know what books/covers intrigue you. I adored Robert Silverberg’s original anthology New Dimensions 2 (1973) - I’m a bit closer to owning the entire series. I’ve previously reviewed Sterling’s Involution Ocean (1977).Ī little research reveals the female figure was repurposed (sans the original spaceship background) from an earlier Luis Royo cover-Mike Resnick’s The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future (1988) (cover link).Ĥ. I can’t remember anything about it other than the cover–if there’s a cover that screams 80s cyberpunk it’s that one! I might have read Bruce Sterling’s Islands in the Net (1988) in my late teens. Here’s Mary Gentle’s first collection of short fiction (I’m most interested in the SF stories).ģ. Before I explore an author’s best known fictions, I enjoy nosing about the periphery first. I dunno about exclamation points in titles! More seriously, I’ve yet to read any of Philip Wylie’s novels-this one is at the top of the list.Ģ.

Globalhead by Bruce Sterling