Review for BREACH THE HULL
A favorable review of my short story, “Peter Power Armor”, which appears in the anthology BREACH THE HULL, edited by Mike McPhail. http://www.peter-hodges.com/2008/05/01/breach-the-hull-review/
Wright’s story is almost post-apocalyptic. In his future world, the rules of war were blurred in the face of smart weaponry and replaced with terror tactics. The end result was the collapse of society and an institutional fear of technology. A survivor from this era who now serves as a tutor to a young girl helps her discover a cache of forbidden technology. The result is gut-punchingly satisfying.
Here is the opening paragraph of the short story:
I found the power-armor I used to wear as a child in the wall-space behind my parent’s attic, behind a door paneled to look like part of the wainscoting. No dust disturbed this miniature clean-room; no looters had found it here, not in all the years.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
