{"product_id":"weird-world-war-iv-9781982125967","title":"Weird World War IV","description":"\u003cb\u003eNEW STORIES OF FUTURE WARFARE FROM THE HOTTEST NAMES IN SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND HORROR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTALES OF THE WAR BEYOND THE NEXT \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III's 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 today's greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors include: \u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Maberry \u003cbr\u003e Steven Barnes \u003cbr\u003e D.J. Butler \u003cbr\u003e Brad R. Torgersen \u003cbr\u003e Martin L. Shoemaker \u003cbr\u003e T.C. McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e Eric James Stone \u003cbr\u003e Stephen Lawson\u003cbr\u003e Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson\u003cbr\u003e Laird Barron\u003cbr\u003e Nick Mamatas \u003cbr\u003e Brian Trent \u003cbr\u003e Erica L. Satifka \u003cbr\u003e Kevin Andrew Murphy \u003cbr\u003e Maurice Broaddus and Rodney Carlstrom \u003cbr\u003e David VonAllmen \u003cbr\u003e Deborah A. Wolf \u003cbr\u003e Nina Kiriki Hoffman \u003cbr\u003e Julie Frost \u003cbr\u003e Weston Ochse\u003cbr\u003e John Langan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout \u003ci\u003eWeird World War IV: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Editor Hazlett follows \u003ci\u003eWeird World War III\u003c\/i\u003e 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 (\"Reflections in Lizard-Time\" by Brian Trent) or artificial intelligences reshape humans into new species suitable for the poisoned Earth (\"Mea Kaua\" by Stephen Lawson). Cosmic horrors are summoned by combatants in \"Deep Trouble\" by Jonathan Mayberry and beaten back by \"elder beasts\" from African myths in \"The Door of Return\" 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 \"Wave Forms\" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and John Langan's Arthurian \"Future and Once,\" keep the battle to come a tantalizing tease. The broad ideological range here--\"The Eureka Alternative\" by Brad Torgersen blames the apocalypse on wokeness, while Weston Ochse's \"A Day in the Life of a Suicide Geomancer\" critiques the MAGA crowd--means not every story will be for every military SF reader, but the sheer weirdness of many of these pieces is a testament to the genre's creativity and verve.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982125967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sean Patrick Hazlett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574184419509,"sku":"9781982125967","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_51da7da7-5b67-4419-808f-722cf5c4f1ff.jpg?v=1643690601","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/weird-world-war-iv-9781982125967","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}