Copyright Acknowledgements. Vietnam Syndrome -- "The Big Flash" / James Morrow -- "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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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