Forward

By Gordon R. Dickson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671559710
• ISBN13: 9780671559717
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Book

Forward! is a collection of short stories about humanity set in a fairly wide variety of general sci-fi situations, with varying degrees of cohesion. The story I recall the best was about a colonized planet in the human sphere of influence. Details were somewhat sketchy, but humans had settled onto it, but there was a native, aboriginal-stage civilization living in the forests, while the settlers planted fields and subsistance farmed. As an unintentional consequence of their growing slash-and-burn tactics, a large force of adolescent natives attacked a settlement. A lone boy, the only survivor of the initial attacks, fought for days against tens of thousands of the natives from inside a fort, in an Alamo-style defence. It was a mournful story, well-written and engaging. The overall quality of the stories was decent, and the book is worth reading.