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.”
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Brian Aldiss. A Soldier Erect: or Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy
BRIAN ALDISS. A Soldier Erect. or Further Adventures. of the Hand-Reared Boy
Epigraph
Introduction
Book One. The Lair of the Monkey God
Book Two. The Old Five-fingered Widow
Book Three. God’s Own Country
About the Author
The Horatio Stubbs Saga
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Table of Contents
Cover
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The truck-ride lasted over an hour. We swayed in unison as our vehicle bumped along. The convoy wound out of Indore and through a countryside of increasing wildness. The few dust-coated villages we drove through were absolutely desolate. The only life we saw, beyond the odd cow, was an occasional mangy dog, a piyard, glimpsed in the headlights of the following vehicle; it turned its red eyes on us as we passed … Every now and again, our gharri would surge forward as the driver tried to run one of the dogs over. Hate the place – hate its inhabitants – already the official message was getting through to us!
‘I don’t think I’m going to go much on India,’ Geordie announced. It was even registering on him.
