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Dozois Gardner - Future War / Дозуа Гарднер - Война будущего [2013, EPUB, ENG]

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Название: Future War / Война будущего
Год выпуска: 2013
Под редакцией: Dozois Gardner & Dann Jack / Дозуа Гарднер & Данн Джек
Издательство: Baen
eISBN: 978-1-62579-185-6
Формат: EPUB
Качество: eBook
Язык: английский

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Будущие войны на Земле, в космосе, на других планетах и в чужих галактиках - одна из самых распространенных тем в фантастике. Составителям антологии явно нелегко было выбрать для нее произведения :-). Но они справились!
    Preface
    Second Variety / Вторая модель Philip K. Dick
    Salvador / Сальвадор Lucius Shepard
    Floating Dogs Ian McDonald
    The Private War of Private Jacob / Рядовая война рядового Джекоба Joe Haldeman
    Spirey and the Queen / Спайри и королева Alastair Reynolds
    A Dry, Quiet War / Сухая, тихая война Tony Daniel
    Rorvik’s War Geoffrey A. Landis
    Second Skin Paul J. McAuley
    The War Memorial / Памятник войне Allen Steele
    A Special Kind of Morning / Чудный рассвет Gardner Dozois
THE PRIVATE WAR OF PRIVATE JACOB

Joe Haldeman

With each step your boot heel cracks through the sun-dried crust and your foot hesitates, drops through an inch of red talcum powder, and then you draw it back up with another crackle. Fifty men marching in a line through this desert and they sound like a big bowl of breakfast cereal.
Jacob held the laser projector in his left hand and rubbed his right in the dirt. Then he switched hands and rubbed his left in the dirt. The plastic handles got very slippery after you’d sweated on them all day long, and you didn’t want the damn thing to squirt out of your grip when you were rolling and stumbling and crawling your way to the enemy, and you couldn’t use the strap, no place off the parade ground; goddamn slide-rule jockey figured out where to put it, too high, take the damn thing off if you could. Take the goddamn helmet off too, if you could. No matter you were safer with it on. They said. And they were pretty strict, especially about the helmets.
“Look happy, Jacob.” Sergeant Melford was always all smile and bounce before a battle. During a battle, too. He smiled at the tanglewire and beamed at his men while they picked their way through it—if you go too fast you get tripped and if you go too slow you get burned—and he had a sad smile when one of his men got zeroed and a shriek a happy shriek when they first saw the enemy and glee when an enemy got zeroed and nothing but smiles smiles smiles through the whole sorry mess. “If he didn’t smile, just once,” young-old Addison told Jacob, a long time ago, “just once he cried or frowned, there would be fifty people waiting for the first chance to zero that son of a bitch.” And Jacob asked why and he said, “You just take a good look inside yourself the next time you follow that crazy son of a bitch into hell and you come back and tell me how you felt about him.”
Jacob wasn’t stupid, that day or this one, and he did keep an inside eye on what was going on under his helmet. What old Sergeant Melford did for him was mainly to make him glad that he wasn’t crazy too, and no matter how bad things got, at least Jacob wasn’t enjoying it like that crazy laughing grinning old Sergeant Melford.
He wanted to tell Addison and ask him why sometimes you were really scared or sick and you would look up and see Melford laughing his crazy ass off, standing over some steaming roasted body, and you’d have to grin, too, was it just so insane horrible or? Addison might have been able to tell Jacob but Addison took a low one and got hurt bad in both legs and the groin and it was a long time before he came back and then he wasn’t young-old anymore but just old. And he didn’t say much anymore.
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