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    A Soldier Erect: or Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy

    By Brian Aldiss

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    The second book in the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy, available for the first time on ebook.

    A Soldier Erect finds Horatio Stubbs, the hero of The Hand-Reared Boy, serving in the Far East during WW2. Thankfully, the war doesn’t get in the way of his sexual escapades.

    Brian says: “In the second novel concerning Horatio Stubbs, World War II has broken out. Stubbs is serving in the British army in India and Burma. After tussles with whores in India comes the struggle with the Japanese in the jungle. The only novel to describe a soldier’s life in the ‘Forgotten Army’. Like its predecessor, Soldier was a best seller in England.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 2, 2012
    ISBN9780007462537
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    A Soldier Erect: or Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy
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    Brian Aldiss

    Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

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    • 3/5
      Mr. Aldiss is an accomplished writer, and his memoirs of the Malaya Counter-insurgency are colourful. An interesting situation as Chinese Communists attempt to de-stabilize a basically Malayan outpost of the dying British empire. The effects on being urban Britons while young, horny, and engaged in counter insurgency work in a foreign environment have more than passing relevance.
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      Continues the story of the hand reared boy