A Boy And His Tank Leo Frankowski,
Publisher: Baen
ISBN: 0671577964
DDC: 813.54
Edition: Hardcover; 1999-03-01
Summary:
Leo Frankowski, author of the popular Conrad Stargard series,
postulates a future in which the former Yugoslavia is still torn by
civil war between Serbs and Croats. But now they've taken their
endless conflict to space, and wars between minority factions are
fought by starving workers symbiotically bonded with Mark XIX Main
Battle Tanks. These sentient tanks provide for all their human
pilots' needs (and we do mean all their needs). Our hero, Mickolai
Derdowski, is a Polish Kashubian who chooses to be inducted into the
Croat branch of the army and bonded with a sexy female tank in lieu
of being reduced to his organic components and used as fertilizer in
the hydroponic vats. The real forces behind the war are the Tokyo
Mining and Manufacturing Company, which makes money off the hapless
Kashubians unfortunate enough to have colonized a brutal, barren
metallic hunk of a planet, and the Wealthy Nations Group, which
squeezes water from turnips all over the galaxy. Like most military
SF, the lighthearted Boy and His Tank is full of guns, girls, and
galactic adventure, and Frankowski throws in a surprise ending that
will make you either laugh or cry. --Adam Fisher
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