Elliot Ackerman
Author of 2034
About the Author
Image credit: Author Elliot Ackerman at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44520849
Works by Elliot Ackerman
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- Birthdate
- 1980-04-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- U.S. Marine
journalist
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Statistics
- Works
- 11
- Members
- 1,211
- Popularity
- #21,207
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 59
- ISBNs
- 73
- Languages
- 3
"From their knees to their ankles the police wore greaves, and from their wrists to their elbows they wore gauntlets; they covered their torsos with breastplates, and all of it was made of a black carbon fiber that was tough as steel yet light as plastic. They tilted their weapons on their hips and cradled their white helmets in their overdeveloped biceps while they opened and closed the transparent visors on their face guards. With their chest-high riot shields leaning against them, they appeared like modern-day hoplites, men who were well practiced in old forms of violence. They smoked and laughed among themselves. Their superiors handed out fistfuls of tear-gas cartridges and bandoliers of rubber bullets from plywood crates."
"How it glimmers. Encased in glass, the renovated wing of the Istanbul Modern invites the light. During the day it shines and shines along the bank of the Bosphorus, radiating like a second sun. At night the boat lights, the bridge lights, even the passing gridlock along Cevdet Pasa Caddesi reflect kaleidoscopically from its windows, behind which a priceless mélange of contemporary and classic collections hang..."… (more)