Overview
TALES OF THE WAR BEYOND THE NEXT
What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War IIIās radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating lawfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Wipe away the ashes of civilization and peer into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from todayās greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Contributors include:
Jonathan MaberryĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Steven BarnesĀ Ā Ā
D.J. ButlerĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā
Brad R. TorgersenĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā
Martin L. ShoemakerĀ
T.C. McCarthy
Eric James StoneĀ Ā
Stephen Lawson
Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson
Laird Barron
Nick Mamatas Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Brian TrentĀ Ā Ā Ā
Erica L. SatifkaĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Kevin Andrew MurphyĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Maurice Broaddus and Rodney CarlstromĀ Ā Ā Ā
David VonAllmenĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā
Deborah A. WolfĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Nina Kiriki HoffmanĀ
Julie FrostĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Weston Ochse
John LanganĀ Ā
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About Weird World War IV:
"Editor Hazlett followsĀ Weird World War IIIĀ by looking even further into the future at the war after the next big one. As such, these 21 skirmishes are not straight extrapolations of present-day politics but veer into alternate timelines in which dinosaurs invade to escape their own troubles (āReflections in Lizard-Timeā by Brian Trent) or artificial intelligences reshape humans into new species suitable for the poisoned Earth (āMea Kauaā by Stephen Lawson). Cosmic horrors are summoned by combatants in āDeep Troubleā by Jonathan Mayberry and beaten back by āelder beastsā from African myths in āThe Door of Returnā by Maurice Broaddus and Rodney Carlstrom. Not every story quite fits the theme of a war to follow the next war, but all feature postapocalyptic settings where conflict brews. The best, like āWave Formsā by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and John Langanās Arthurian āFuture and Once,ā keep the battle to come a tantalizing tease. The broad ideological range hereāāThe Eureka Alternativeā by Brad Torgersen blames the apocalypse on wokeness, while Weston Ochseās āA Day in the Life of a Suicide Geomancerā critiques the MAGA crowdāmeans not every story will be for every military SF reader, but the sheer weirdness of many of these pieces is a testament to the genreās creativity and verve."Ā āPublishers WeeklyĀ
"Although this might seem to be a limited theme, the various authors have risen to the challenge, and produced a wide variety of fiction incorporating science fiction and fantasy concepts into tales of struggles that do not always take place on battlefields." āTangent
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