The aardvark is ready for war
The aardvark is ready for war: a novel James W. Blinn
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1997.
ISBN: 0316099872
DDC: 813.54
LCC: PS3552
Summary:
"Aardvark is a tactical jet crewman on board an aircraft carrier
steaming to the Persian Gulf War. Nicknamed after the gas masks he
and all combatants carry, Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the
world's first virtual war. Sardonic and borderline, a camcorder
voyeur and cathode ray tube assassin, he wears his aardvark mask
constantly and tries to filter reality through digital or video
screens at all times." "In his incendiary narrative of the voyage
from San Diego to the Gulf, Aardvark shows us the warping effects of
his shipmates' slow realization that they have come not just to
deliver death, but to risk death themselves. Through increasingly
surreal daily training exercises and two phantasmagorical shore
leaves, Aardvark sees violence, drunkenness, and sheer military
lunacy embraced with heroic abandon. As the ship nears its
destination, Aardvark finds his private mission going horribly awry -
but there is still hope he can salvage everything with the right
photo op."--BOOK JACKET.
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