From the (Library) Bookshelf: Mecha Corps

I was headed for the checkout desk of the city library when I decided to pass by the shelves of paperback science fiction novels, for all that I might not have been expecting anything more than the melancholy feeling of disconnection from the titles on the spines. One of them, though, caught my attention. "Mecha Corps" registered just with the "a"; I've long connected "mecha" to anime and supposed that to knock the "a" off, as with Battletech, is to try and "westernise" the concept... although there, I've also been more than aware of a sort of dismissive "bipedal walking machines are no match for actual tanks without animation on their side" attitude. Still, I was amused enough to take the book off the shelf.

The cover didn't look out of place among the "military SF" subgenre, with a photorealistic fellow in uniform in the foreground and some sharp-edged mechanical figures with just a bit of resemblance to the "walking scrap piles" of the live-action Transformers movies. Still accepting this, I glanced at the back cover blurb and then opened the book up. There were two quotes in the front. One was from Douglas MacArthur, which again didn't surprise me too much, but the second was from a character from the anime Gundam Seed...
( That really got my attention )