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(2) | None | "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"--… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions "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"-- ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - Introduction
- Vietnam Syndrome
- The Big Flash / Norman Spinrad
- The Village / Kate Wilhelm
- Terrorism
- The Frozen One / Tim Pratt
- The Language of Monsters / Michael Canfield
- In the Loop / Ken Liu
- Wasps/Spiders / Brendan C. Byrne
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Text of Colin Powell's Speech to the UN Security Council Cut Up with Regret / Anonymous
- 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 / A.M. Dellamonica
- The People We Kill / Audrey Carroll
- Light and Shadow / Linda Nagata
- 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 Corrosion / Jon Bassoff
- War is Over?
- Noam Chomsky and the Time Box / Douglas Lain
- Arms and the Woman / James Morrow
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My main problem was I expected military scifi (I am a military officer) and found what I felt was civilian scifi and, quite often, rather anti-military. ( )