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Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle
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Janissaries

by Jerry Pournelle

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I'd expected better from Jerry Pournelle. The idea is good - a group of mercenary soldiers saved from a hopeless situation to go and fight for aliens in other times and places. It could have been great, but the writing is flat and uninteresting. I stopped after the first chapter. ( )
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[Futura, 1989] The mortar fire was nearer.

Rick Galloway heard the sharp crump! of at least five mortars. Then there was silence for a moment. It was just twilight, and twilight does not last in the tropics. Night came fast, and with it the sound of the African tropic highlands: birds, crickets, unidentifiable creatures calling each other in the sudden dark. A warm breeze rustled the dry grass on the hilltop.
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