"Study War No More" Edited by Joe Haldeman. NY: St. Martin's Press, (1977). Jacket Art by Rick Sternbach
Joe Haldeman is uniquely qualified to edit a collection of science-fiction alternatives to war. His novel "The Forever War" (1974), a novel of future warfare, was based on his experience as a foot soldier in Vietnam. It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science fiction novel. He asked ten science fiction writers to consider the problem of war, and whether there might be a solution to it, and this is what he got:
POUL ANDERSON - Warfare by formalized political assassination.
ISAAC ASIMOV - Peace and freedom through cybernetic regimentation.
BEN BOVA - Surrogate warfare via machine-induced illusion.
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER - Soldier as actor; actor as soldier.
HARLAN ELLISON - A god-beast to teach a terrible lesson.
JOE HALDEMAN - Privately-sponsored nuclear blackmail.
HARRY HARRISON - Destroy poverty, not people.
DAMON KNIGHT - A visitor from Aquarius gently wrecks the world.
WILLIAM NABORS - Peace as the ultimate venereal disease.
MACK REYNOLDS - Captain Joe Mauser slugs it out for dear old VTT, Inc.
"Study War No More" Edited by Joe Haldeman. NY: St. Martin's Press, (1977). Jacket Art by Rick Sternbach
Joe Haldeman is uniquely qualified to edit a collection of science-fiction alternatives to war. His novel "The Forever War" (1974), a novel of future warfare, was based on his experience as a foot soldier in Vietnam. It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science fiction novel. He asked ten science fiction writers to consider the problem of war, and whether there might be a solution to it, and this is what he got:
POUL ANDERSON - Warfare by formalized political assassination.
ISAAC ASIMOV - Peace and freedom through cybernetic regimentation.
BEN BOVA - Surrogate warfare via machine-induced illusion.
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER - Soldier as actor; actor as soldier.
HARLAN ELLISON - A god-beast to teach a terrible lesson.
JOE HALDEMAN - Privately-sponsored nuclear blackmail.
HARRY HARRISON - Destroy poverty, not people.
DAMON KNIGHT - A visitor from Aquarius gently wrecks the world.
WILLIAM NABORS - Peace as the ultimate venereal disease.
MACK REYNOLDS - Captain Joe Mauser slugs it out for dear old VTT, Inc.