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TALES OF THE WAR BEYOND THE NEXT
What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War IIIโs radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stonesโฆand 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 todayโs greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Contributors include:
Jonathan Maberry
Steven Barnes
D.J. Butler
Brad R. Torgersen
Martin L. Shoemaker
T.C. McCarthy
Eric James Stone
Stephen Lawson
Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson
Laird Barron
Nick Mamatas
Brian Trent
Erica L. Satifka
Kevin Andrew Murphy
Maurice Broaddus and Rodney Carlstrom
David VonAllmen
Deborah A. Wolf
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Julie Frost
Weston Ochse
John Langan
Will they find answers there, or is this only the first stage in their search?
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Aboutย Weird World War IV:
"Editor Hazlett followsย Weird World War IIIย 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 (โReflections in Lizard-Timeโ by Brian Trent) or artificial intelligences reshape humans into new species suitable for the poisoned Earth (โMea Kauaโ by Stephen Lawson). Cosmic horrors are summoned by combatants in โDeep Troubleโ by Jonathan Mayberry and beaten back by โelder beastsโ from African myths in โThe Door of Returnโ 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 โWave Formsโ by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and John Langanโs Arthurian โFuture and Once,โ keep the battle to come a tantalizing tease. The broad ideological range hereโโThe Eureka Alternativeโ by Brad Torgersen blames the apocalypse on wokeness, while Weston Ochseโs โA Day in the Life of a Suicide Geomancerโ critiques the MAGA crowdโmeans not every story will be for every military SF reader, but the sheer weirdness of many of these pieces is a testament to the genreโs creativity and verve."ย โPublishers Weekly
"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." โTangent
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Sean Patrick Hazlettย is an Army veteran, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a masterโs degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As a cavalry officer serving in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, he trained various Army and Marine Corps units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. More than forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such asย The Yearโs Best Military and Adventure SF,ย Yearโs Best Hardcore Horror,ย Terraform,ย Galaxyโs Edge,ย Writers of the Future,ย Grimdark Magazine,ย Vastarien, andย Abyss & Apex, among others. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and Codex Writersโ Group. Hazlettโs award-winning short story โAdramelechโ appeared in theย Wall Street Journalย best-selling anthologyย Writers of the Future: Volume 33.
