Passage at Arms (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The ongoing war between humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditions, to pass through space almost undetectable. Passage at Arms tells the intimate, detailed, and harrowing story of a climber crew and its captain during a critical juncture of the war. Cook combines speculative technology with a canny and realistic portrait of men at war and the stresses they face in combat. Passage at Arms is one of the classic novels of military science fiction.
Customer Reviews
Great Glen Cook
If you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing Glen Cook’s writing style this is a decent place to start. If you are a veteran of his much more well known Black Company series then you know what to expect. Cook writes from the point of view of the grunts in the front. You won’t find his stories woven with characters running things from a high level POV. Instead you get it straight from the poor sods in the trenches.
This story revolves around humanity engaged in a long running fight with an alien adversary; the war seemingly is not going well for us. Humanity has one small advantage, the Climber vessels. Passage at Arms takes place during a tour of one of the Climbers of Climbing Fleet 1, told from the perspective of an imbedded reporter on task to tell the true story of these heroic crews.
I really enjoyed this book. Not Cook’s best work but I think that is understandable as this is one of his earlier works. He does a great job capturing the highs, lows, desperation, and distrust of a far away command that I bet is pretty on the nose. It reads a lot like the cat and mouse game played by the destroyers and subs during WW2 in the Atlantic.