Dr. John A. King recommends John Steakley's 1984 novel Armor as essential sci-fi. The book introduced the universal soldier concept and influenced modern military sci-fi. King has owned it for 15 years and calls it bloody good.
Right, g'day. Kicking it old school, 1-minute book review, link available in the bio. Armour by John Steakley. First up, brilliant to bollocks, full brilliant, bloody good science fiction. The very first universal soldier is this fella. So what Steakley does well is he's ahead of his time for back then, and he talks about armour, and he talks about the use of armour, he talks about the use in battle, The whole universal soldier concept came from this book. Now, I've had this book for probably 15 years, and you can see I've got a bunch of them, but this is one of the books I keep because I know I'm going to read it again. So if you love good sci-fi, if you love Space Marines and fighting and battles and that stuff like that, get yourself Armor. Link is available in the Bible— sorry, link is available in the bio. You'll thoroughly enjoy it. Let me know what you think. Cheers. Push the bloody button. Stop.
