Re: Naked to the Stars

On 3/20/2025 4:51 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Naked to the Stars by Gordon Dickson is a soldier story taking place in
an eternal war for Human expansion.  It seems much more of an anti-war
story and certainly more bitter about war than the Dorsai books.
 Reading the first few chapters I assumed from the nature of the war and
the basic attitude that this book had come out of the Vietnam conflict,
but no.  It's copyrighted 1961, making it far ahead of its time and
presaging work by folks like Joe Haldeman.
 

The French had been fighting Vietnamese "insurgents" since they regained control of the area at the end of WW2 and Americans were well aware of it.
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