Deserts of Fire

Speculative Fiction and the Modern War

Buch | Softcover

372 Seiten

2016
Night Shade Books (Verlag)
978-1-59780-852-1 (ISBN)

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In 1987, the New York Times published their first front-page review of a science fiction anthology for a collection called In the Field of Fire, themed around the war in Vietnam. Vietnam was science fiction,” the reviewer wrote, and writing about it through that lens found meaning in a war few understood.

This idea, that speculative fiction is a vital tool to understanding the inexplicable, is just as relevant nearly thirty years later. Deserts of Fire is a war-inspired anthology for the new millennium, because for many, the recent wars in the deserts of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East are just as slippery to grasp and difficult to understand as Vietnam was two generations earlier.

Inside Deserts of Fire are stories from a variety of bestselling and award-winning authors that start with the simple and modest ambition of making the reader feel strange about the recent past. Because when there are too many explanations, the truth won’t be found by merely choosing one side or the other. But rather, the truth is in the existence of the confusion itself.

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

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.

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 CouncilColin 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 CorrossionJon Bassoff

War is Over?
Noam Chomsky and the TimeBox”Douglas Lain
Arms Woman”James Morrow

Copyright Acknowledgements

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.7.2016
Verlagsort	Newberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-59780-852-0 / 1597808520
ISBN-13	978-1-59780-852-1 / 9781597808521
Zustand	Neuware