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Steel Gauntlet (Starfist #3)
"Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill."
After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with w...more
After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with w...more
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Published
January 8th 2002
by Del Rey
(first published December 26th 1998)
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This is another good book in the Starfist series. It continues to follow the men in the 34th FIST marine unit and, as before, does a wonderful job of doing so. The characters are interesting and the battles are well written.
The book blurb is a wee bit misleading though in stating that the marines must use “weaponry three hundred years out of date”. You might get the impression that the marines, for some bizarre reason, didn’t get the modern weapons they should have had. This is not the case. The...more
The book blurb is a wee bit misleading though in stating that the marines must use “weaponry three hundred years out of date”. You might get the impression that the marines, for some bizarre reason, didn’t get the modern weapons they should have had. This is not the case. The...more
Steel Gauntlet: StarFist Book III, is Sherman and Cragg‘s third Military Science fiction outing into the StarFist Universe, and this time the focus is on the relative merits of infantry versus armored warfare. It is a fun read for MilFic fans, with a particular appeal for tech heads and a strong continuation of character building, but much of the plot relies upon technical predictions by the authors that now seem somewhat dated. I enjoyed it both when I first picked it up, and now years later, b...more
On the planet Diamunde the Marines of 34th FIST face the mechanized forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr in a battle for the resource rich planet. They must fight a force possessing more modern and more powerful weapons than they possess.
i liked this one a lot. good story, good characters.
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David Sherman has been a Marine and a sculptor. He writes science fiction and military novels.
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