Body Armor: 2000

Note: this book was OCRed, fixed, and formatted by the uploader, based on (https://r.mrd.ninja/https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fembed%2Fbodyarmor20000000unse) this Internet Archive scan , after seeing (https://r.mrd.ninja/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tor.com%2F2023%2F05%2F02%2Fsuit-up-for-battle-body-armor-2000-edited-by-joe-haldeman-charles-g-waugh-and-martin-harry-greenberg%2F) this review on Tor.com. This is the first non-PDF digital version of this book, as far as I can tell. From the back cover: In the future, war is still hell, and man retains one inescapable impulse: survival. As technology advances, the tools of battle—the strategies, the weaponry, the scope of destruction— also advance. Here are eleven riveting tales of the future’s battlefields—the high-tech hardware of tomorrow’s wars, the bare emotions of tomorrow’s warriors—from the celebrated masters of science fiction, including... C. J. CHERRYH DAVID DRAKE GORDON R. DICKSON HARRY HARRISON JOE HALDEMAN This anthology contains: The Scapegoat by C. J. Cherryh; The Last Crusade by George H. Smith; Or Battle's Sound by Harry Harrison; Right to Life by Thomas A. Easton; The Chemically Pure Warriors by Allen Kim Lang; In the Bone by Gordon R. Dickson; Early Model by Robert Sheckley; Hired Man by Richard C. Meredith; Contact by David Drake; The Warbots by Larry S. Todd; and Hero by Joe Haldeman. Introduction (Haldeman); Contact! (Drake), The Warbots (Todd), The Scapegoat (Cherryh), The Last Crusade (Smith), Hired Man (Meredith), Early Model (Sheckley), In the Bone (Dickson), The Chemically Pure Warriors (Lang), Right to Life (Easton), Or Battle's Sound (Harrison), Hero (Haldeman). Surely there has been personal armor for as long as men have fought.