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In the future, war is still hell, and man retains one inescapable impulse: survival. As technology advances, the tools of battle-the strategies, the weaponry, the scope of destruction-also advance. Here are eleven riveting tales of the future's battlefields-the high-tech hardware of tomorrow's wars, the bare emotions of tomorrow's warriors-from the celebrated masters of science fiction, including... C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Gordon R. Dickson, Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman.