From Publishers Weekly
Military SF fans of the Falkenberg legion saga will need to be in fighting trim to lug home The Prince, by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Sterling. This hefty compendium includes the four novels Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell the Spartans and Prince of Sparta. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
These nine stories set in the near and not-so-near future include a sampling of characters and settings Rusch has returned or hopes to return to in a novel. The Hugo-nominated novella "The Retrieval Artist" led to the series-opening novel The Disappeared [BKL Je 1&15 02], but in the story, an absorbing character study, Miles Flint is a harder, more jaded detective than in the novel, complete with an attractive, double-crossing client. In "Dancers Like Children," a disgraced xenopsychologist, who is engaged to investigate whether a race of aliens is capable of understanding what they are doing to human colonists, gets a lesson in humanity; the story wound up, along with its successor here, "Alien Influences," in the Arthur C. Clarke-nominated Alien Influences (1997). Other stories comment thoughtfully on subjects ranging from genetic testing in "Results" to mother-daughter relations in "Reflections on Life and Death" to what human cloning could mean to celebrity and journalism in "Flowers and the Last Hurrah," which includes a better plot twist in 40 pages than most novels ever manage. Terrence Miltner
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