Rainborough Inheritance

Dickson

HARLEQUIN)

Following the advice of his father, young Charlie Stuart travels to a planet 200 light years from Earth and there finds himself involved in a political struggle.

Star Prince Charlie (Medallion SF, Z3078)

Anderson, P.

BERKLEY

Space Dogfights

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

A collection of short stories set in a future of space-age wars features works by Christopher Anvil, Raymond E. Banks, Sonya Dorman, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Chad Oliver, and Jack Vance. Original.

Bootcamp 3000

In these days, when refrigerators are full and KP is increasingly relegated to civilians, Uncle Sam provides amply, but until World War I military food was "terrible'. This 282 page agreeable history begins at Valley Forge, covers each of America's wartime provisions (up to Lurp in Vietnam), and includes today's cushier menus. Not every veteran will rush to whip up that infamous creamed beef, which properly begins the recipe section, or even bother with a slumgullion recipe which, feeding 100, requires, some adjustment for the family dinner table, but the others seem representative, tasty enough, and generally duplicable. Dickson also includes some official kitchen philosophy, surprisingly clearly phrased considering most military writing ("Remember that beans, badly boiled, kill more than bullets") and adds a few pointers on castaway cookery--eat what the monkeys eat and never drink sea water. And a glossary gathers in all those under-the-table locutions: "albatross" for chicken, "bug juice" for Kool-Aid, "braised trake" and "buttered ermal" for foolers. A mess to remember--not too spicy and a bit thin but warm enough and lightly processed.

Chow: A Cook's Tour of Military Food

Plume

Defines slang terms dealing with advertising, cars, bureaucracy, business, crime, drugs, computers, medicine, the military, politics, entertainment, and sports

Slang! Topic by Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes: Slang Topic by Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pocket

Cully When, frontiersman of a future century, tries to save the last human settlement in the Pleiades from alien invasion in this story of space-age guerrilla warfare

None but Man

Baen

With most of the world wrapped in a hypnotic deep sleep, Rafe Harald arrives from the moon to find a friend and is shadowed by agents of the failing world government and a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. Reprint.

Sleepwalker's World

As they settle more and more planets, the human race must deal with the Emerging Planets Fairness Court, a stern governing body that sits in judgment on all intergalactic newcomers. Original.

Blood and War (The Harriers, Book 2)

A comprehensive collection of wartime jargon demonstrates military slang at its most colorful and innovative moments, revealing the origins of such phrases as "greased," "scudded," and "nittenoid." Reprint.

War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

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