Review of “The HORARS of War” (1970)
Gene Wolfe (writer).
Read in 2025.
Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).
Robots in the army.
A game with authenticity, not extrapolation, placing “Second Variety” (1953) in a setting like the Vietnam War. Wolfe does it mostly by the numbers, with a pun in the title, but the ending is good.