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Hardcore Negotiations Have Begun!Now awakened from its decade-long sleep-refurbished and reassigned-Breach the Hull rejoins the fight. The founding book in the Defending the Future series once again lets loose the dogs-of-war on an unsuspecting universe...
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John C. Wright, Mike McPhail, James Daniel Ross, John C. Wright, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, Jeffrey Lyman, John G. Hemry, Bud Sparhawk, Lawrence M. Schoen, Bud Sparhawk, Patrick Thomas, Tony Ruggiero, and show more C.J. Henderson
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Breath the Hull is a very 'swingey' military sci-fi short story collection. The best stories are "Cryptic" by Jack McDevitt, and "Peter Power Armor" and "Forgotten Causes" by John C. Wright, which lead off the collection with the best kind of sideways meditations on existence that SF is capable of. From there, the stories move through more or less forgettable exploits of space marines and space pirates, and doomed soldiers executing impossible orders. But for the price is a good read, and the stinkers are easily skipped.
The levels of imagination and creativity required to create these short stories is incredible. Entertaining!
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Great military SF short-story collection. My favorites are stories by Jack McDevitt and James Daniel Ross.
Great stories (and not all are military per-se – which makes this even better collection). Recommended.
Great stories (and not all are military per-se – which makes this even better collection). Recommended.
A science fiction anthology with the common theme of space warfare. Not a bad read by any means; as usual there were stories I enjoyed more than others. It has to be said that the Age of Sail tropes do fit with space travel.
Recommended.
Recommended.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Dec 23, 2025 (Edited)English (UK)
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- Canonical title
- Breach the Hull
- Original publication date
- 2007
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- 53
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- 572,673
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.85)
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 5
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