Science has elevated war to a hi-tech killing art. The armaments and countermeasures of today's war toys are childlike compared to what a violent future holds in store for battlefields across the galaxy. At the vanguard of tomorrow's armies are tanks. Powerful and deadly behemoths, armed from tread to turret, crushing everything in their path as they thunder into battle across alien worlds. 5 • The HORARS of War • (1970) • Gene Wolfe 23 • I Made You • (1954) • Walter M. Miller, Jr. 35 • Encounter • (1979) • Stephen Leigh 55 • The Computer Cried Charge! • (1976) • George R. R. Martin 69 • Hangman • (1979) • David Drake 125 • Field Test • [(1976) • Keith Laumer 149 • An Empty Gift • (1983) • Steve Benson 161 • Tank • (1979) • Francis E. Izzo 167 • The Tank and Its Wife • (1978) • Arsen Darnay 177 • Damnation Alley • (1967) • Roger Zelazny