Deserts of Fire (eBook)

Speculative Fiction and the Modern War

Douglas Lain (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
372 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-59780-861-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 wont 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

ContentsIntroductionVietnam Syndrome“The Big Flash”—Norman Spinrad“The Village”—Kate WilhelmTerrorism “The Frozen One”—Tim Pratt“Language of Monsters”—Michael CanfieldWeapons of Mass Destruction Presentation to the United Nations Security Council—Colin Powell“The Seventh Expression of the Robot General”—Jeffrey FordShock, 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 LiuMission Accomplished “Winnebago Brave”— Rob McCleary“Seeing Double”—Ray DaleyLife After Wartime?“Sealed”—Robert Morgan Fisher“Unzipped”—Stephen Dines“The Sun Inside”—David SchwartzExcerpt from Corrossion—Jon BassoffWar is Over?“Noam Chomsky and the TimeBox”—Douglas Lain“Arms Woman”—James MorrowCopyright Acknowledgements

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: AI • Alien • alien abduction • alien hunter • alien infestation • Alien Invasion • alien species • alien species books • American foreign policy • apocalyptic novel • Artifical Intelligence • bio-terrorism • bio terrorist • book about Syria • bush presidency • Camp Ganci • detainee facilities • detainee operations • Dubya • Dystopia • eco terrorism • eco thriller • genre bender • genre bending • genre blending • George W Bush • Hard Science Fiction • Hard SF • infantry • in the middle east • Iraq 2004 • Iraq War • Literature • Middle East • Middle Eastern Politics • Military • military policemen • near-future dystopia understanding the middle east • New Adult • Novel • ordnance • post apocalyptic fiction • President George W Bush • romantic science fiction • Saddam Hussein • Science Fiction • science fiction romance • Sci Fi • SF • Space Opera • Speculative Fiction • terrorism • terrorists • Time Travel • understanding terrorism terrori • USA middle east foreign policy • US Foreign Policy • US soldiers • violence Iraq • War in Iraq • War on Terror • W Bush foreign policy • world building • Xenophobia
• ISBN-10: 1-59780-861-X / 159780861X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-861-3 / 9781597808613