Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Deserts of Fire) • essay by Douglas Lain
• Vietnam Syndrome • essay by Douglas Lain
• The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• The Village • (1973) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Terrorism • essay by Douglas Lain
• The Frozen One • (2008) • short story by Tim Pratt
• The Language of Monsters • short story by Michael Canfield
• In the Loop • (2014) • short story by Ken Liu
• Wasps/Spiders • short story by Brendan C. Byrne
• Weapons of Mass Destruction • essay by Douglas Lain
• Text of Colin Powell's Speech to the UN Security Council Cut Up with Regret • short fiction by Anonymous
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Shock, Awe, and Combat • essay by Douglas Lain
• Over Here • (2010) • short story by Ray Vukcevich
• Shaytan, the Whisperer • short story by Pedro Iniguez
• Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy • [The Proxy War] • (2008) • short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• The People We Kill • short story by Audrey Carroll
• Light and Shadow • (2014) • short story by Linda Nagata
• Mission Accomplished • essay by Douglas Lain
• Winnebago Brave • short story by Rob McCleary
• Seeing Double • short story by Ray Daley
• Life After Wartime? • essay by Douglas Lain
• Sealed • short story by Robert Morgan Fisher
• Unzipped • (2007) • short story by Steven J. Dines
• The Sun Inside • (2008) • novella by David J. Schwartz
• Excerpt from Corrosion • short fiction by Jon Bassoff
• War Is Over? (Do We Want It?) • essay by Douglas Lain
• Noam Chomsky and the Time Box • (2011) • short story by Douglas Lain
• Arms and the Woman • (1991) • novelette by James Morrow