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A military scifi classic, by one of the modern masters of world science fiction. Reads L to R (Western Style).
More than thirty years ago, a hyper-dimensional passageway suddenly appeared over the continent of Antarctica. Fighters from the mysterious alien force known as the JAM poured through the passage, the first wave an attempted terrestrial invasion. Their ferocity was unquestionable, their aim unknown. Humanity, united by a common enemy, managed to repel the invaders, chasing them back through the passageway to the strange planet nicknamed "Fairy."
The task of finishing the battle was given to the newly formed FAF, a combat force created to go to Fairy and eliminate the JAM bases once and for all. Now, in the midst of a war with no end in sight, Second Lieutenant Rei Fukai carries out his missions in the skies over Fairy. Attached to Tactical Combat and Surveillance Unit 3 of the Special Air Force, his duty is to gather information on the enemy and bring it back to base—no matter the human cost. His only constant companion in this lonely task is his fighter plane, the sentient FFR-31 Super Sylph, call sign: Yukikaze.
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Ford Ruggieri
reviewed Yukikaze on December 31, 2010
Yukikaze
Really great book on the themes of human vs inhuman, human vs machine/computer, and what makes a human human. Is it empathy and emotions? Or is it reasoning and logic? The capacity for these four things is what separates us from animals, but why is it that we, as humans, people, or society, often consider those who primarily rely on reasoning and logic over empathy and emotions as being "inhuman", or behaving "cold" or "machine-like"?
The author explores these ideas through through the protagonist, who is a pilot in an elite squadron. The members of the squadron operate in isolation: isolated from other squadrons, and isolated from other members of their squads. They rely on themselves and their machines, and their objective is to return to base at all cost... even if that means letting men in other squadrons die. For this reason, these pilots are considered cold, machine-like, and inhuman...
Perhaps the novel resonates with me, because I can empathize with the solitude and isolation experienced by the protagonist.
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