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Column Current Record #[573258] Proposed Changes Warnings
Title Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War -  
Transliterated Title - -  
Authors Douglas Lain -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Publisher Night Shade Books -  
Pub Series - -  
Pub Series # - -  
Pages 361 -  
Format tp -  
Pub Type ANTHOLOGY -  
ISBN 9781597808521 -  
Catalog ID - -  
Price $15.99 -  
Image Coverart
[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Gz3Q-gS9L.jpg] 		-  
Web Page https://archive.org/details/desertsoffirespe0000unse -  
Note
  • First printing per number line
  • No date other than year. Source of date unknown but matches Amazon.com as of 2022-03-21.
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page & rear cover
  • Cover design by Lesley Worrell per copyright page & rear cover
  • Divided into sections, each with a one- or two-page introduction by the editor (the titled essays in the index here). Each story is preceded by an author bio.
  • Story titles are all given in quotes, but this seems a stylistic decision by the editor and so quotes have not been included here
  • "Excerpt from Corrosion" is titled as per publication
  • Divided into sections, each with a one- or two-page introduction by the editor (the titled essays in the index here). Each story is preceded by an author bio.
  • First edition, first printing per number line.
-<ul>
-<li>First printing per number line
-<li>No date other than year. Source of date unknown but matches Amazon.com as of 2022-03-21.
-<li>Cover artist credit per copyright page & rear cover
-<li>Cover design by Lesley Worrell per copyright page & rear cover
-<li>Divided into sections, each with a one- or two-page introduction by the editor (the titled essays in the index here). Each story is preceded by an author bio.
-<li>Story titles are all given in quotes, but this seems a stylistic decision by the editor and so quotes have not been included here
-<li>"Excerpt from Corrosion" is titled as per publication
-</ul>
+<ul><li>Divided into sections, each with a one- or two-page introduction by the editor (the titled essays in the index here). Each story is preceded by an author bio.<li>First edition, first printing per number line.</ul>
External IDs -  

Modified Regular Titles

Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Big Flash -  
Authors Norman Spinrad -  
Date 1969-09-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length novelette -  
Page 9 9  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Village -  
Authors Kate Wilhelm -  
Date 1973-04-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 33 33  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Frozen One -  
Authors Tim Pratt -  
Date 2008-02-01 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 47 47  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Language of Monsters -  
Authors Michael Canfield -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 55 55  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title In the Loop -  
Authors Ken Liu -  
Date 2014-07-03 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 77 77  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Wasps/Spiders Wasps/Spiders  
Authors Brendan C. Byrne -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 93 93  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Seventh Expression of the Robot General -  
Authors Jeffrey Ford -  
Date 2008-10-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 111 111  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Over Here -  
Authors Ray Vukcevich -  
Date 2010-11-01 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 123 123  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Shaytan, the Whisperer -  
Authors Pedro Iniguez -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 135 135  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy -  
Authors A. M. Dellamonica -  
Date 2008-04-28 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 147 147  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The People We Kill -  
Authors Audrey Carroll -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 167 167  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Light and Shadow -  
Authors Linda Nagata -  
Date 2014-07-03 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 177 177  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Winnebago Brave -  
Authors Rob McCleary -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 203 203  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Seeing Double -  
Authors Ray Daley -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 217 217  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Sealed -  
Authors Robert Morgan Fisher -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story short story  
Page 227 227  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Unzipped -  
Authors Steven J. Dines -  
Date 2007-06-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 233 233  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title The Sun Inside -  
Authors David J. Schwartz -  
Date 2008-06-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length novella -  
Page 243 243  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Excerpt from Corrosion Excerpt from Corrosion  
Authors Jon Bassoff -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length - -  
Page 283 283  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Noam Chomsky and the Time Box -  
Authors Douglas Lain -  
Date 2011-01-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length short story -  
Page 311 311  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Arms and the Woman -  
Authors James Morrow -  
Date 1991-07-00 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length novelette -  
Page 343 343  
Current Proposed Warnings
Title Text of Colin Powell's Speech to the UN Security Council Cut Up with Regret -  
Authors Anonymous -  
Date 2016-07-12 -  
Type SHORTFICTION -  
Length - -  
Page 107 107  

New Regular Titles

Page Title Authors Date Type Length Warnings
1 Introduction (Deserts of Fire) Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
5 Vietnam Syndrome Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
43 Terrorism Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
103 Weapons of Mass Destruction Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
119 Shock, Awe, and Combat Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
199 Mission Accomplished Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
223 Life After Wartime? Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  
307 War Is Over? (Do We Want It?) Douglas Lain 2016-07-12 ESSAY  

WARNING: This publication has been verified against the primary source.

Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Don Erikson 2017-04-04 16:32:33 Permanent 2020-03-29

New record: Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and

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Submitted by Vasha77 (Talk) on 2017-02-12 08:39:44

Approved by Stonecreek (Talk) on 2017-02-12 09:03:00

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