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Book Title from 1970's-1980's - Military SciFi Collection of Tank Short Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by user3208998 on August 13, 2021

Looking for title of collection of short-stories involving tank/tank battles. Pretty sure it had a tank on the front cover.

Two distinct stories I remember:

#1: Injured soldier stuck in a cave on Mars (or another planet) has verbal back-and-forth with a malfunctioning sentient tank that is just out of kill-shot range. The story ends when the tank realizes it can disable safe-guards, get a running start, and lob a shell/grenade the extra 50ft needed to kill the human. Tank registers satisfaction that the annoying radio emissions from the human have stopped.

#2: Enhanced super-soldier has been retired/exiled to a remote security enclosure out in the wilderness. Society used him for combat, then discarded/were afraid of him after the war. A female assassin-type somehow eludes security protocols and gains entrance to his compound. We realize that she’s there because the super-soldier killed her brother – who was a brain-in-a-tank, on the other side during the war. Lots of back-story, regrets, enlightenment, etc. She dissapears one morning, leaving the device that allows the super-soldier to escape his confinement.

One Answer

Probably "Supertanks"

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It contains the story I Made You already id'd by Valorum, and has a tank on the front cover.

The other story is Encounter by Stephen Leigh. It has the enhanced soldier exiled to an enclosure and the female warrior who comes after him. She, her husband, father, and brother were all "animatanks during the war...our brains wired to the machinery while our bodies slumbered at home." The enhanced soldier killed the husband and brother and "crippled my father and me".

Correct answer by Organic Marble on August 13, 2021

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