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Soldier Boy

Michael Shaara

First published July 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Human colonies have been attacked and destroyed, and the fail safe bomb implanted under all colonies has been disabled beforehand. The military has decayed after centuries of peace and men are untrained and the warships are old and rare.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1953 Cover Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1953 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 138
May 1954 Cover Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers Vanguard Press Anthology 182
November 1956 Cover Galaxie, Novembre 1956 Éditions Nuit et Jour MAGAZINE 58
May 1958 Cover Galaxis Science Fiction, #3 Moewig MAGAZINE 104
June 1958 Cover Galaxy, #1 Editrice Due Mondi MAGAZINE 104
March 1982 Cover Soldier Boy Timescape / Pocket Books Collection 11
September 1983 Cover Urania #952 Mondadori MAGAZINE 5
April 1984 Cover Sternengesicht Goldmann Collection 142
April 1989 Cover Robots Signet / New American Library Anthology 290
August 1989 Cover Robots Robinson Anthology 290
November 1989 Cover Space Infantry Ace Books Anthology 75
1990 Cover Friends, Robots, Countrymen Dercum Audio Anthology
January 2016 Soldier Boy Project Gutenberg Chapbook
March 2021 Cover Black Infinity, Summer 2021 Dead Letter Press MAGAZINE 209