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Weapon is a 1989 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's first novel; he had previously written a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk . The book is about an android , designed to kill, which experiences a crisis of conscience and runs away from its government masters to live in a Nicaraguan village.
Stanisław Lem pictured at a typewriter in 1966. Stanisław Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexistent books may be found in his following works: in three collections of faux reviews of fictional books: A Perfect Vacuum (Doskonała próżnia, 1971), Provocation (Prowokacja, 1984), and Library of 21st Century (Biblioteka XXI wieku, 1986) translated as One Human Minute, and in Imaginary Magnitude ...
New Scientist's review stated that the book "breaks new ground" by revealing that "US officials helped to suppress the information they gathered on Dimona," i.e., Israel's Negev Nuclear Research Center. [12] The book spent three weeks on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list. Some Jewish and Israeli publications were much more critical of the book.
A review in The New York Times described it as a "disquieting but riveting" book and Schlosser as a "better reporter than policy analyst". [6] Speaking of the book, domestic security adviser Lee H. Hamilton said, "The lesson of this powerful and disturbing book is that the world's nuclear arsenals are not as safe as they should be. We should ...
This list reflects the knowledge of the MNF as of the end of Weapons of Choice.A number of ships of the MNF did not go through the Transition with the rest of the fleet; as of the end of the book, it is unclear which of these ships remained in the 21st century, which were destroyed by the Transition or immediately after, and which fell into enemy hands.
Talkers debate. Masters obliterate. You’ll find the latter at the Rare Insults subreddit, where the internet’s most skillful verbal assassins gather to admire the sharpest, most unexpected ...
Paul Skenazy of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "The book that results is austere, impressive and weighty with the authority of a writer whose attention to language, and the people who live within and by it, rarely wavers." [12] On November 27, 1989, the English-Speaking Union awarded the book its Ambassador Book Award. [2]
The story follows English professor Adam Snell as he realizes that someone is trying to kill both him and his book, Sovrana Sostrata, a book about truth.As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright's script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th ...