Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Vietnam Syndrome "The Big Flash"--Norman Spinrad "The Village"--Kate Wilhelm Terrorism "The Frozen One"--Tim Pratt "Language of Monsters"--Michael Canfield Weapons of Mass Destruction Presentation to the United Nations Security Council--Colin Powell "The Seventh Expression of the Robot General"--Jeffrey Ford Shock, Awe, and Combat "Over Here"--Ray Vukcevich "Shaytan, the Whisperer"--Pedro Iniguez "Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy"--AM Dellamonica "Shadows and Light"-- Linda Nagata "The People We Kill"-- Audrey Carroll "In the Loop"--Ken Liu Mission Accomplished "Winnebago Brave"-- Rob McCleary "Seeing Double"--Ray Daley Life After Wartime? "Sealed"--Robert Morgan Fisher "Unzipped"--Stephen Dines "The Sun Inside"--David Schwartz Excerpt from Corrossion--Jon Bassoff War is Over? "Noam Chomsky and the TimeBox"--Douglas Lain "Arms Woman"--James Morrow Copyright Acknowledgements

About the Author

Douglas Lain is the author of two novels, Billy Moon and After the Saucers Landed, an editor, and the publisher of Zero Books, which specializes in philosophy and political theory. He hosts the Zero Squared podcast, interviewing a wide range of fascinating and engaging people with insights for the new millennium. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children.

Reviews

"The 21 stories in this anthology ably demonstrate the imaginative possibilities of war as a theme in contemporary speculative fiction. [Lain's] selections prove that the best speculative fiction, no matter how futuristic, is always about the here and now." --Publishers Weekly "Thought-provoking, brilliantly curated ... every entry is meritorious and well-wrought ... A welcome addition to the landscape that SF used to frequently visit." --Paul Di Filippo, Locus "Lain has done the heavy-lifting of curation, and delivered a rucksack-ready primer in the state of the world, the near-past and --future, and where writing about war may take us next. There is little doubt that these explorations will ignite conversation and thoughtful analysis." --Red Bull Rising "... speculative fiction is used effectively to look at the underbelly of conflict and tries to make some sense of it beyond the headlines and rhetoric of politicians. An intelligent read that is as mind-blowing as no-man's land." --Starburst Magazine