The Jungle With Clash by Night - Hardcover

Drake, David; Kuttner, Henry

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9780312851972: The Jungle With Clash by Night

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312851979 ISBN 13: 9780312851972

Publisher: Tor Books, 1991

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On Venus, where humans live in domed undersea Keeps, Ensign Brainard and his men venture to the surface in their flitterboats to wage war for the Keeps, in a novel based on the classic short story "Clash by night"

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A sequel, Drake (Fortress, 1986) carefully explains, to the late (and lamentably unregarded) Henry Kuttner's long story ``Clash by Night,'' reproduced here, in which Earth has been destroyed and humanity lives in ``Keeps'' beneath the oceans of a terraformed Venus. The land masses are rife with vicious, predatory animals and vegetables; the Keeps conduct proxy wars by means of the mercenary Free Companies, who alone will brave the manifold perils of the land. The plot is simple: the hovercraft commanded by Ensign Brainard is damaged in action. Brainard must beach the craft, then lead his crew up a hill swarming with dire beasties in order to signal for help. Through his inspired leadership, most of the crew survive, and Brainard is vindicated against prior accusations of cowardice. Various flashbacks pad the proceedings. Military science-fiction reduced to a reassuringly familiar action formula. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Drake ( Surface Action ) enters a future originally mapped by SF master Henry Kuttner in "Clash by Night," a 1943 novella-length story that is also printed here. earth having become a radioactive cinder, humanity has fled to a "terraformed" Venus, where people live under the oceans in Keeps that battle one another with mercenary fleets. Drake writes of one small but fatally significant incident in one battle: Their torpedoboat wrecked, Commanding Officer Brainard and Officer-Trainee Wilding must move their men through a jungle to safety. Each officer, almost paralyzed with fear, misinterprets lucky breaks as bold and calculated moves on the other's part. Short scenes and discontinuous flashbacks create a stroboscopic effect that interferes with the story. After almost 50 years, Kuttner's "Clash" still provides a much better read.
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