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S.F. Masterworks, Fiction, Science fiction, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)
The acclaimed novel of near-future warfare based on the Nebula Award-winning novella, 'R&R'.
In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.
Praise for Life During Wartime
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One of the most intriguing books of the year ... superior writing - Science Fiction Review
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Perhaps the most exciting new storyteller of them all - Washington Post
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Shepard manipulates genre elements in order to transcend genre expectations - The New York Review of Books
J.G. Ballard
* #17 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written
* 'One of the brightest stars in post-war fiction' -- Kingsley Amis
* 'There are those (I am among them) who would back Ballard as Britain's number one living novelist' -- John Sutherland, Sunday Times
* 'This novel, with its brilliant descriptions of an inundated London and an ecology reverting to the Triassic, gained Ballard acceptance as a major author' -- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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