Tags: SF
Summary
War is a serious business—or is
it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose
on the subject and considers what might happen if:
· Someone devised a computer war game so realistic
and addictive that the people in charge of battle on both sides
didn’t have the time or inclination to start a real war.
· Another device gave every homeowner the power to
block off his property from any incursion, even by nuclear
weapons.
· A secret organization pulls the plug on an
impending war by causing the commanders on both sides to be
unable even to think of any of the words they need to order
their forces into action.
· And, in a full-length novel, The Steel, the Mist
and the Blazing Sun, the devastation after World War III has
not put an end to war—not as long as men survive who
still want to conquer and dominate; nor as long as others will
fight, not just to survive, but to defend freedom. The many
faces of war, examined by a master of science fiction adventure
with a wryly humorous twist.