A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.īody armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. The military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet Warning: Will make it hard to see space marines the same way ever again. Plate with a framing story a couple decades later that gradually becomes the main plot. Add a heap of realism vis-a-vis the PTSD that continuously donning inhuman powered armor and dropping into combat again and again would impart.
Mix with equal parts 50s science fiction antagonists (Starship Troopers Arachnids). Recipe for Armor: Take your typical 90s/00s space marine video game protagonist (Doomguy, Master Chief). He is widely known to be a major Hollywood script doctor, called in at the last minute to solve seemingly impossible problems, but he is famously unwilling to divulge these titles. Steakey himself is a reclusive and mysterious figure, having written only 2 novels (Vampire$ being the other) and 4 short stories over the course of a 25-year career. So he lives on, fighting through battle after hopeless battle in a nearly-invincible suit of armor with no hope of either victory or defeat. It centers around the story of a Felix, a man who simply does not want to live anymore, but has a will which he refers to as his "Engine" that will not allow him to die. Beyond the hardcore military scifi is a very deep and disturbing look at the very nature of humanity and the soul. I'm not sure that anything like Armor has ever been written before, or ever will again.
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